[u-u] How to brick your laptop

[Adam Holland]

This is an important lesson for me.  I will be more respectful of /sys on
my Linux systems from now on.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Dan Astoorian <djast at ecf.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:40:48 EST, arocker at Vex.Net writes:
> >
> > That seems a very clear description; thanks, Dan.
>
> Thank you.
>
> > Is there an original to cite?
>
> The article on www.theregister.co.uk that you linked to, which said:
>
>     The directory in question is /sys/firmware/efi/efivars which is a
>     special filesystem that presents the configuration settings for the
>     computer's underlying UEFI firmware to the user.
>
> as well as the comments in the GitHub ticket referenced therein at:
>
>     https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
>
> Particularly illuminating is the comment at:
>
>     https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402#issuecomment-176806817
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Dan Astoorian, Systems Administrator
> Engineering Computing Facility
> University of Toronto
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