From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932428AbWJXIFV (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:05:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932429AbWJXIFV (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:05:21 -0400 Received: from calculon.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.88]:20417 "EHLO calculon.skynet.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932428AbWJXIE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:04:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:04:56 +0100 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: WARNING: Do not use with EFI-based (e.g. IA64) systems. Bootloader may get eaten Message-ID: <20061024080456.GA30505@skynet.ie> References: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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