Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 5 authors, 2014-02-07

Re: Soft RAID and EFI systems

From: Chris Murphy <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-04 15:40:57

On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:57 AM, David Brown [off-list ref] wrote:
The most important way to protect your FAT32 system is simply to avoid
writing to it except when absolutely necessary.  If it is mounted
read-only, and only updated when changing grub or updating the kernel,
then just make sure you don't power-cycle your machine at that time.
The smaller the critical window, the smaller the chances of problems.
I agree. I even question why most linux distros persistently mount the EFI System partition at /boot/efi for no apparently good reason. Windows and OS X do not keep the ESP mounted even read-only. It's pretty much never updated. If we're constantly updating the ESP for things like grub.cfg modifications, I think the implementation is flawed.

On EFI, grubx64.efi/core.img needs to look for grub.cfg /boot/grub2 not /boot/efi/EFI/fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048999



Chris Murphy
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