On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de> wrote:
itself. Arch would still need to change where the kernels are installed to prevent clobbering the root of the ESP, for instance by installing somewhere in /usr and then calling this tool in post_install() to install the kernel to the proper location in /boot, which is system-specific.
Yup, this would be the idea.
Is anything in this direction planned? Such a change might also be somewhat disruptive to users with BIOS and users with EFI who don't use gummiboot...
We hope to be able to follow this scheme. Ideally all boot-loaders would use the same configuration files, which would make this "just work". So far I'm aware of patches against grub2, hopefully more will follow. Even without that, it shouldn't be too hard to transition non-gummiboot systems to using this scheme, but we haven't discussed it in detail. -t