Bug#826045: systemd: New kernels are not booted

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Am 01.06.2016 um 22:25 schrieb Thomas Prokosch:
> After gummiboot has been integrated into systemd as systemd-boot, I
> decided to give this new feature a try and installed a new machine
> with systemd, not installing gummiboot or any other boot loader. The
> machine is capable of booting an UEFI stub, so systemd-boot should be
> able to handle this. However, with this approach the machine failed to
> boot. Only after manually copying the kernel and initramfs from /boot
> to /boot/efi, and manually setting up the relevant data structures in
> /boot/efi the machine came up as expected.
> 
> It seems that integrating gummiboot into systemd is missing a critical
> piece, that is the update-gummiboot script that copies the kernel
> files. This script was installed in the postinst hook for kernels at
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ but is absent in systemd.
> 
> Because of this omission new installs are broken, this is why I set
> the severy of this bug report to "important".
> 
> Please add an equivalent of the update-gummiboot script to systemd.

systemd-boot is not officially supported yet.
We install the systemd-boot related files so users can play with them,
but you are basically on your own.

Maybe it's better to remove them.

Martin, your thoughts?



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