Re: Does automatic boot assessment work for Type #2 EFI Unified Kernel Images?

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 06.08.20 01:14, Arian Van Putten (arian@xxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hey List,
>
> I am reading
> https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/
> and
> https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT/
>
> I want to use Type 2 unified images because of SecureBoot. But I want a
> 2-partition model a-la CoreOS, where I rollback when the node isn't
> healthy.  I wanted to use automatic boot assessment to implement this
> mechanism.  Where I have 2 EFI images in $BOOT/loader/entries/; one loading
> the first partition in its cmdline; and the other loading the second
> partition in its cmdline.  But then I noticed that
> https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT/ only talks about files in
> $BOOT/loader/entries/   and not $boot/EFI/Linux/
>
> Does this mean automatic boot assessment doesn't work for Type #2 entries?
> Or will it work for that as well if I name my EFI images in a similar
> naming scheme as the entries in $BOOT/loader/entries
>
> If not; is there a good reason why not and is it something that is worth
> implementing?

It should already just work. If it doesn't it would be a bug.

Lennart

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