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Re: grubenv vs. diskfilter
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Phillip Susi |
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Re: grubenv vs. diskfilter |
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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:57:04 -0400 |
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On 6/3/2013 12:48 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> While grub itself can be installed on diskfilter devices (LVM,
> Linux MD, ...), diskfilter devices are read-only. As grubenv is
> automatically assumed to be in /boot/grub, this makes it impossible
> to set variables from within grub. So grub cannot reset boot once
> indicator, cannot save currently selected menu entry etc.
I've been kicking around the thought that grub-pc should just put
grubenv in the embed area attached to the core img, and grub-efi
should put it in the ESP. That would solve grubenv not working on
btrfs too.
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