rfc: EFI System partition, FAT32, repair and non-persistent mount

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 17:02:42 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 09:49 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:

> Um.
> 
> EFI_FILE_PROTOCOL's Write method sounds suspiciously like it writes to
> a filesystem.

Sure, UEFI has the capability, but it's not going to be used when simply
booting the system normally. All the firmware does in that case is mount
the partition and execute the bootloader it finds there.
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