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/efi as ESP mountpoint

nl6720
2018-07-08
2018-07-10
  • nl6720

    nl6720 - 2018-07-08

    refind-install fails to find EFI system partition if it is mounted to /efi. It looks like refind-install currently only supports /boot and /boot/efi for ESP mointpoints.

    /efi is intended as a replacement to /boot/efi, it's used by systemd-gpt-auto-generator.
    Could the support be extented to include /efi as a ESP mountpoint?

     
  • Roderick W. Smith

    I've just posted an update to refind-install to add this support. If you care to test it, I'd appreciate it.

     
  • nl6720

    nl6720 - 2018-07-10

    There's a typo in the mount command. See https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code/merge-requests/16/ .

     
  • Roderick W. Smith

    Oops. Thanks for fixing that! MR accepted.

     
  • nl6720

    nl6720 - 2018-07-10

    Great! refind-install now works with /efi as the ESP mountpoint. Thank you!

    Slightly related feature request:

    It appears that for systemd-gpt-auto-generator to auto-mount the ESP (to either /boot or /efi) it needs to know the used ESP's GUID. This is done by reading the efi variable LoaderDevicePartUUID. The variable is documented in https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface/ .
    Any hope that rEFInd could set the variable?

     

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