qubes-dom0-update could check whether /boot is mounted

[marmarek]

Reported by marmarek on 27 Jul 2014 20:49 UTC
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-devel/28AYrjm-DgM

it might make sense to check before updates to /boot whether it is actually mounted by checking whether there are any files in /boot.

I just noticed that qubes-dom0-update wrote to /boot without it being mounted (i.e. it wrote to a previously empty folder on /). I usually don't mount /boot in fstab, because it tends to make the boot process faster by a couple of seconds (& grub doesn't really seem to need it as it is more low-level).

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/885

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 27 Jul 2014 20:52 UTC

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 27 Jul 2014 20:52 UTC

[andrewdavidwong]

@marmarek: What is the current recommended workaround for this? Just always remember to plug in your USB drive and mount /boot before running qubes-dom0-update? (And if you forget, you have to manually mv the new files from the disk's /boot to the USB's /boot?)

[andrewdavidwong]

@marmarek: What is the current recommended workaround for this? Just always remember to plug in your USB drive and mount /boot before running qubes-dom0-update? (And if you forget, you have to manually mv the new files from the disk's /boot to the USB's /boot?)

[marmarek]

Yes, something like this. You may do that after downloading updates
(when yum wait for confirmation) and you see kernel/bootloader/aem
updates.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

Yes, something like this. You may do that after downloading updates
(when yum wait for confirmation) and you see kernel/bootloader/aem
updates.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?