Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released

Posted Apr 25, 2016 22:45 UTC (Mon) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)
In reply to: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released by mjg59
Parent article: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released

Efibootmgr does not appear to me to be the kind of utility likely to be used by a script. Even if it were, my position would still be, better to break scripts than brick computers. You keep mentioning that the kernel fix has been released and backported; that's great, and, if SystemD can verify it's running on a kernel with the fix, then by all means mount efivarfs rw. But first priority always has to be "don't destroy the hardware".

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released

Posted Apr 25, 2016 22:53 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

efibootmgr is part of my deployment scripts. I'm not alone in this.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released

Posted Apr 28, 2016 17:05 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

> Efibootmgr does not appear to me to be the kind of utility likely to be used by a script.

The scripts multiple distributions use to make the system bootable (e.g. installing the UEFI version of GRUB) require efibootmgr.