[systemd-devel] How to apply for partition type GUID for Linux /boot?

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Lennart,


On 2019-11-27 13:13, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mi, 27.11.19 12:43, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-devel at molgen.mpg.de) wrote:

>> A partition type GUID [1] for the partition to be mounted under `/boot`
>> when started with Linux would be nice. For example, there is already one
>> for FreeBSD /boot [2].
>>
>> As you seem to have requested one for the freedesktop.org shared boot
>> loader partition already, could you please share the application process
>> for such a partition type GUID?
> 
> The great thing about UUIDs are that they are an unmanaged
> namespace. Anyone can pick one, as long they generate them properly
> (which today means pulling from a good /dev/urandom).
> 
> Hence there's no requesting or registration, you just pick one,
> that's it.
> 
> I don't know what you expect /boot to be. In the systemd context we
> defined the "extended boot loader partition", which is a place you can
> place kernels and stuff, if you don't want to use the EFI ESP for
> that, and sd-boot and our userspace tools look in it too. It's
> automatically discovered and mounted to /boot if it exists, by
> systemd-gpt-auto-generator.
> 
> This extended boot loader partition as GPT type UUID
> bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172 and that's documented in the
> systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8) man page.

Yes, I wanted to use that, but as it was formatted with ext4 the boot
failed [3].

> --
> Lennart Poettering, Berlin

A space is missing after your signature separator [4].


Kind regards,

Paul


[3]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/14165
[4]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signatur_(E-Mails_und_Postings)#Form

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