| Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:04:56 +0100 | Subject | WARNING: Do not use with EFI-based (e.g. IA64) systems. Bootloader may get eaten | From | (Mel Gorman) |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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