From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Soft RAID and EFI systems
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:57:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EECD53.30802@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D3B8F1A-F525-459D-95F2-9D7889C222CD@colorremedies.com>
On 02/02/2014 05:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> On Feb 2, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> That's funny because one of the reasons I want to use UEFI firmware
>> is to get rid of grub (I don't like it and the way it has become
>> such a bloated beast): since /boot is vfat and has its own
>> partition, I prefer use a much simpler bootloader such as
>> gummyboot.
Ditching the bootloader is possible:
http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/
It seems to me that you should be able to create a raid1 v1.0 MD array
of your EFI support partitions, and put the combined and signed
kernel/initramfs onto it (mirrored to all member drives).
Then set the UEFI bios to try each device's ESP in turn.
Untested ... :-)
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-02 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-31 17:02 Soft RAID and EFI systems Francis Moreau
2014-02-01 22:04 ` Martin Wilck
2014-02-02 21:39 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-02 21:56 ` Martin Wilck
2014-02-02 20:39 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-02 21:34 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-02 22:30 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-02 22:57 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2014-02-03 7:19 ` Martin Wilck
2014-02-04 8:41 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 8:48 ` David Brown
2014-02-04 8:53 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 12:27 ` Phil Turmel
2014-02-04 15:13 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-04 15:29 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-07 7:42 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 8:32 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 8:57 ` David Brown
2014-02-04 9:06 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 9:35 ` David Brown
2014-02-04 9:45 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-04 15:27 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-04 15:40 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-04 14:50 ` Chris Murphy
2014-02-07 8:00 ` Francis Moreau
2014-02-03 9:56 ` David Brown
2014-02-04 8:22 ` Francis Moreau
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