On Do, 22.06.23 12:24, Jeremy Linton (jeremy.lin...@arm.com) wrote: > But, IMHO the largest change is moving the boot kernel/initrd to the ESP, > rather than the use of systemd-boot itself. Given the filesystem layout > remains the same outside of those two items and the BLS entries, all the > common tools (dracut/etc) seem to be able to deal with it, and random other > packages not manipulating kernel/initrd images are behavior should not be > affected anymore than putting reFind/whatever in the boot path.
While putting kernle/initrd (UKIs) into the ESP is a good thing systemd-boot actually is fine with loading them from a separate boot partition to, i.e. the XBOOTLDR partition, which in many ways is similar to traditional /boot/, but must be marked via recognized XBOOTLDR partition type uuid. (also it must be a firmware recognizable fs, i.e. vfat) Such an XBOOTLDR partition is supposed to be the escape hatch if the ESP is pre-existing and too small to contain multiple full sized UKIs. But you could also make it an escape hatch for simplifying transitions from the status quo ante. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
