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The boot disk isn't guaranteed to be writable.

• TylerE 2y ago
  Even after you’ve already installed a custom boot laser to it? I mean, I agree with you in principle, but we already have the chicken - can’t existence of the egg be assumed?
  • yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
    Consider a DVD that's EFI bootable; we can have whatever bootloader we want on the disc but it is not physically writable
  • Arch-TK 2y ago
    Aside from the DVD issue mentioned in the other person's comment. I have a design for a SED OPAL based encryption setup where the system boots with a read-only boot partition and it only becomes RW as part of the initramfs running (although optionally you can just keep it RO until you need to write to it, but this requires buy-in from the package manager). I think network booting with EFI would also suffer from a similar problem.