From: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: WARNING: Do not use with EFI-based (e.g. IA64) systems. Bootloader may get eaten
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:04:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061024080456.GA30505@skynet.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org>
On (20/10/06 01:56), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc2/2.6.19-rc2-mm2/
>
Due to the issue described here (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/21/61),
any system based on EFI may have issues with their bootloader. As the boot
partition is FAT32 any alteration of files in the EFI partition will
effectively delete them and the machine will need to be recovered via
CD or by booting over the network.
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-24 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 8:56 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-10-20 9:34 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Cornelia Huck
2006-10-20 13:19 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Alan Cox
2006-10-20 11:39 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-20 13:32 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Anton Vorontsov
2006-10-20 14:57 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-20 16:19 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-10-20 16:54 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-20 17:25 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-10-20 22:37 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Matthew Frost
2006-10-21 0:16 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 0:50 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Greg KH
2006-10-21 2:13 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 3:55 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Greg KH
2006-10-22 0:34 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Matthew Frost
2006-10-21 0:48 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Greg KH
2006-10-23 7:58 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Cornelia Huck
2006-10-24 7:40 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Greg KH
2006-10-20 11:59 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2006-10-20 12:04 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Jiri Kosina
2006-10-20 12:33 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2006-10-20 22:43 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-10-23 3:29 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-10-20 15:34 ` [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2-mm2] fix tty_ioctl powerpc build Hugh Dickins
2006-10-20 17:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-20 19:52 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-20 15:54 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-20 16:30 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Badari Pulavarty
2006-10-20 17:31 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-22 2:16 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-22 3:15 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Dave Jones
2006-10-22 3:24 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Randy Dunlap
2006-10-22 22:18 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-21 0:24 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 J.A. Magallón
2006-10-21 0:37 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Jiri Kosina
2006-10-21 0:41 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Randy Dunlap
2006-10-21 17:30 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2: reproducible hang on shutdown on i386 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-23 14:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-23 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-23 21:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-22 13:32 ` [Nasty crash on boot] was Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Reuben Farrelly
2006-10-22 18:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-22 22:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-23 20:54 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Magnus Määttä
2006-10-23 21:04 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-10-23 21:22 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Magnus Määttä
2006-10-24 8:04 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2006-10-26 6:11 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Joseph Fannin
2006-10-28 3:18 ` 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 - process_session-helper breaks /sbin/killall5 Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-28 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 17:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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