Control: tags 864525 wontfix On 2017-06-10, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 02:41 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: >> On 06/10/2017 02:11 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 00:59 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: >> >> On 06/10/2017 12:31 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> >>>>> * Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> [2017-06-09 23:18]: >> >>>> flash-kernel currently fails if the boot partition is FAT32. >> >>>> >> >>>> On FAT32 symbolic links cannot be created. >> >>> >> >>> Unless something has changed, FAT for /boot isn't supported >> anyway. >> >>> >> >>> See https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/01/msg00188.html >> >>> >> >> >> >> That information seems to be outdated. >> > [...] >> > >> > I think you didn't follow the thread far enough: >> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/01/msg00195.html >> > >> > Ben. >> > >> >> So this further complication stems from function tarobject() in >> package >> dpgk? > > FAT* are simply not POSIX compatible filesystems and as such are not > supported as /boot (or /, /var, or /usr etc for that matter), > irrespective of how it might appear to you to be working under some > circumstances. > > If your device's firmware requires a FAT partition to boot from then > you should configure flash-kernel in the mode where it mounts that > partition temporarily to copy the boot files to it while /boot remains > a POSIX filesystem (ext4 etc).
Marking as wontfix. live well, vagrant
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