Rescue boot - Cannot mount vfat partition - /boot/efi System won't boot

[Robin Laing]

On 2015-04-09 20:52, Robin Laing wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A Fedora 21 laptop that was working now will not boot.
>
> Fully updated dual boot machine.  Windows quit working but Fedora worked
> until last night.
>
> Trying to boot today, it won't mount the efi partition.  /boot/efi so
> the boot process cannot boot properly.  Grub refuses to boot the kernel.
>   Or any of the kernels in the list.
>
> If I try to mount the efi partition manually in rescue mode, I get an
> error message.
>
> using mount --type vfat /dev/sda6 /boot/efi/
>    I get
> mount: unknown fielsystem type 'vfat'
>
> If I type in
>    mount -t
> and press tab, vfat does show up in the list of file system types.
>
> I have searched and found out dated bugs with similar issues but nothing
> current.
>
> One of the lists suggesting help suggested running
>    dracut --regenerate-all --force
>
> It didn't change anything.
>
> My options are to re-install if I cannot get the boot fixed.
>
> Robin

I reported this as a bug.

Robin