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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only
From:       Lucas Ramage <ramage.lucas94 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-07-14 11:02:35
Message-ID: CAKkjsY-=8xGZt_HciKwrNoDspF3ATW6MjSyqwkEf-gL+cL-FMA () mail ! gmail ! com
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The documentation is being updated. There is no need to worry about that.

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 8:09 PM DarKRaveR <dark@verfeiert.org> wrote:

> Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike Gilbert:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> >> OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns
> >> about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly.
> >>
> >> Here is the newsitem covering this change.
> >>
> >> William
> >>
> > This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl
> > (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or
> > find someone who can do it for you.
> >
>
> Not only bootloader installers.
> It will break things like efibootmgr which can be used to change EFI
> bootmanager's behavior/configuration.
> I am not sure how sane these tools react when efivar is RO.
>
> Regards
>
> -Sven
>
>

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<p dir="ltr">The documentation is being updated. There is no need to worry about \
that.</p> <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 8:09 PM \
DarKRaveR &lt;<a href="mailto:dark@verfeiert.org">dark@verfeiert.org</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike \
Gilbert:<br> &gt; On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs &lt;<a \
href="mailto:williamh@gentoo.org" target="_blank">williamh@gentoo.org</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br> &gt;&gt; OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to \
concerns<br> &gt;&gt; about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem \
unexpectedly.<br> &gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Here is the newsitem covering this change.<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; William<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt; This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl<br>
&gt; (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or<br>
&gt; find someone who can do it for you.<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
Not only bootloader installers.<br>
It will break things like efibootmgr which can be used to change EFI<br>
bootmanager&#39;s behavior/configuration.<br>
I am not sure how sane these tools react when efivar is RO.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
-Sven<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>



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