On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mi, 27.07.22 16:19, Chris Murphy (lists(a)colorremedies.com) wrote:
> >> Boot Loader Spec defines $BOOT as either EFI System partition (ESP) or
Extended Boot Loader Partition (XBOOTLDR), and in effect they need to be FAT in order to
fulfill the interoperability intent of the spec, because it is a shared $BOOT across all
distros.
> >
> > You can use any FS you want with efifs[1].
>
> Yeah, but it's impractical:
>
> * $BOOT is supposed to be readable by all distros that share $BOOT
Hmm, afaik fedora installs /boot/ currently as ext4, no? *Every* Linux
OS should be able to mount that...
I'm talking about distro bootloaders being able to read $BOOT in the pre-boot
environment.
If Fedora decides $BOOT Is ext4, that binds other distros looking to adopt BLS into
shipping signed efifs ext4 too, in order to use the same $BOOT format we are. Or else,
ignore our XBOOTLDR and create their own, in which case we're right back to square
one, which is mutually exclusive /boot, no sharing or cooperation between distros.
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Chris Murphy