From: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
To: "Renaud Métrich" <rmetrich@redhat.com>, grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] search: new --efidisk-only option on EFI systems
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:01:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jlg8rutqmua.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22046ce8-51f6-5206-dea1-0eae0e9b41c6@redhat.com>
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Renaud Métrich <rmetrich@redhat.com> writes:
> When using 'search' on EFI systems, we sometimes want to exclude devices
> that are not EFI disks (e.g. md, lvm).
> This is typically used when wanting to chainload when having a software
> raid (md) for EFI partition:
> with no option, 'search --file /EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi' sets root envvar
> to 'md/boot_efi' which cannot be used for chainloading since there is no
> effective EFI device behind.
>
> Signed-off-by: Renaud Métrich <rmetrich@redhat.com>
The patch fixes the systems in question, and I don't see a way for it to
break other things.
Reviewed-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Be well,
--Robbie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-02 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-01 10:36 [PATCH] search: new --efidisk-only option on EFI systems Renaud Métrich
2022-02-02 16:01 ` Robbie Harwood [this message]
2022-02-04 22:28 ` Glenn Washburn
2022-02-07 9:27 ` Renaud Métrich
2022-02-07 11:12 ` Renaud Métrich
2022-02-07 21:32 ` Glenn Washburn
2022-02-08 7:40 ` Renaud Métrich
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