Custom UEFI layout with /boot/efi, bug 1168118
Adam Williamson
adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 4 00:23:49 UTC 2015
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 17:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168118
>
> This, among dozens of EFI System Partition bugs, and an endless
> stream of user confusion demonstrated on various forums and lists
> proving users do not now and will never understand the basics let
> alone the specifics of EFI System Partitions. And for good reason:
> it's useless boring knowledge.
>
> Simple solution: Stop making users create them. Always make an ESP
> on every selected drive. Revert to GRUB upstream recommended
> behavior using a forwarding grub.cfg on the ESP that uses configfile
> to point to the real one where it's always been at
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. And now nothing ever needs to mount them
> because they never need to be modified after the install.
This seems more appropriate as an anaconda patch than a thread on
test@? I'm not sure what action test@ is expected to take about it.
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