On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:44:32AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 16:55 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Actually, what I want is a consistent way to disable bootloader > > invocation for all bootloaders, without necessarily requiring the > > bootloader package not to be installed (since that's sometimes extremely > > awkward to arrange). Exactly where this goes I can't say I mind. If > > the result is an extension to the bootloader/kernel policy that needs to > > be implemented in each bootloader package, that would be fine too. > [...] > > OK, so something like this: > > "Boot loader packages must be installable on the filesystem in a > disabled state where they will not write to the boot sector or other > non-filesystem storage. While a boot loader is disabled, any kernel and > initramfs hooks it includes must do nothing except (optionally) printing > a warning that the boot loader is disabled, and must exit successfully."
This is a good start, but it doesn't specify *how* boot loader packages are to be disabled. I think that this needs to be consistent across boot loaders. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100828083541.gr12...@riva.ucam.org
