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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