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Unfortunately, that means you don't have an initrd so you can't do luks encryption of your root, support certain filesystems as root (like zfs, mdadm raid), or

Unfortunately, that means you don't have an initrd so you can't do luks encryption of your root, support certain filesystems as root (like zfs, mdadm raid), or various other things. efistub kernels may work for some people, but they're not a generic solution.

exikyut 9y ago
Wait. Couldn't you compile the initrd into the kernel?
yrro 9y ago
You can't stick an initrd on the end of an efistub kernel?
ronsor 9y ago
That's totally false. Just yesterday I booted a kernel using the EFI stub and was able to use an initrd.