On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:49:59AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 09:45 +0100, David Härdeman wrote: >> one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create >> a separate package (let's call it UEFIx) that installs an UEFI binary to >> EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. That binary could then do what the UEFI BIOS >> should've done (i.e. look at the EFI vars for bootorder, bootnext, etc >> and then go on to load the right bootloader). > >Interesting idea, does this stub bootloader already exist, or is it >something someone would need to write? (Either way I think it's likely >too late for Jessie, but perhaps something to think about for Stretch)
Exactly. :-/ >I'd also have some worries about packages installing to /boot/EFI since >that is by definition going to be a VFAT filesystem and I'm not >confident that dpkg will work fully/safely without all the POSIX-ish >semantics (hardlinks, atomic updates and the like), might want to handle >that by installing via the postinst instead of shipping in /boot/EFI. Definitely, yes. dpkg directly on VFAT is a no-go. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
