Re: trying to understand how the /boot/loader symlink is supposed to work.

[Daniel Drake <drake endlessm com>]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> What at least for Fedora Atomic we settled on is a model where
> the bootloader and its data are installed *once*, and never updated again.

I'm curious why you went with this model. Is it just because it's an
unsolved problem? What if the bootloader has a bug that needs to be
fixed, or a security issue?

> Anyways it's a big messy topic, and gets into again how the distribution
> is built.  I'm just describing what we sort of settled on, but it's
> by no means the *only* way one could do things.  If someone has better
> ideas, I'd love to discuss.  Particularly if someone has a design for how
> updates to the bootloader itself should work.  (Is anyone using e.g. UEFI+ostree
> actually updating the copy of grub.x64 or whatever on the ESP?)

We are just starting a project to update the bootloader files on the ESP.
https://github.com/endlessm/eos-boot-helper/pull/178

Daniel