dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

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On 21.10.2014 16:17, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler at mail.de> wrote:
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>> Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> writes:
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>>> Where you get bad results is with, e.g. a pre-existing legacy OS like
>>> Windows XP, where it's not aligned and any subsequent partition is
>>> also not aligned. In that case, even a Btrfs volume wouldn't be
>>> aligned.
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>> I dont want to care at all, I dont want to know if to use fdisk is ok or
>> do I have to use sfdisk or another tool etc. I dont want 1980 dos
>> partion tables… not dos 15.0 aka windows.
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> Again if you're using modern utilities, you don't have to know any of these things, alignment is a solved problem. My point is that Btrfs doesn't do anything differently than other filesystems in this regard, which is exactly nothing. It all depends on an earlier tool aligning the partition on the physical sector boundary.
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>>> Well it's certainly exceptionally f'n complicated in relation to the
>>> benefits we get. But whatever, that ship has sailed. We'll just have
>>> to see how it all plays out, but for now UEFI and Secure Boot are the
>>> way of the present, not just the future.
>>
>> Benefits? I dont see any.
> 
> Rootkit immunity. Chain of trust. Why should only Windows users get these things? 


[GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries
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