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) 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. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
