On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:39:15 +0000 Simon Hobson <li...@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > > I don't get why any of those occasional "sysadmin-wannabe" users you > > have described above would ever need to mess around with their UEFI > > by hand. > > They don't. But certain tasks they run apparently can do - did > someone mention Grub updating it ? New kernels and corresponding initramf files are created every couple weeks, and there's a need to seemlessly get the system to boot the latest. I imagine there are solutions for this that don't involve mods to EFI vars. One I imagine is that grub is permanently set to kernel kernel.symlink with initramfs initramfs.symlink, so that changing kernels is nothing but changing symlinks. I think hard links would work too. If that doesn't work in such a low level of boot (and I don't know what it wouldn't), just name the latest kernel kernel.latest. As far as poettering's necessary-to-life-itself thing of telling the EFI what to boot next, I'm pretty sure this could be done a little farther from the EFI. SteveT Steve Litt February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng