From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: grubenv vs. diskfilter
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:57:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C0AD80.9010606@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130603084818.74125432@opensuse.site>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-03 4:48 grubenv vs. diskfilter Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-18 18:57 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-06-19 6:31 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-19 15:34 ` Phillip Susi
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