FS#51695 : [linux] Please enable CONFIG_EFI_BOOTLOADER

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FS#51695 - [linux] Please enable CONFIG_EFI_BOOTLOADER_CONTROL

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Johan Myréen (jmyreen) - Friday, 04 November 2016, 17:59 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 03 August 2017, 17:04 GMT

Task Type	Feature Request
Category	Packages: Core
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	1 deusstultus (deusstultus) (2016-11-16)
Private	No

Details

Description: I would like to see CONFIG_EFI_VARS and CONFIG_EFI_BOOTLOADER_CONTROL enabled in the kernel package. This implements a new feature introduced in kernel 4.7 which stores a string, if given as an argument to the reboot() system call, in the EFI variable LoaderEntryOneShot. If the string matches one of the boot labels defined in the bootloader configuration, the bootloader will boot once to that label.

This can be used, among other things, to implement a forced file system check at next reboot, similar to the /forcefsck trick that doesn't work anymore with systemd. To implement this, make a copy of arch.conf named fsck.conf in /boot/loader/entries, but with fsck.mode=force added to the kernel command line. To reboot with the forced file system check, run "systemctl reboot fsck".

See https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=06f7d4a1618dbb086e738c93cd1ef416ab01027d

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Closed by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Thursday, 03 August 2017, 17:04 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: see tpowa's comment