Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 23:05 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:41:58PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 21:56 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 09:13:25PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > > > I wonder why we offer to

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-07-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:41:58PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 21:56 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 09:13:25PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > >> > I wonder why we offer to mount /boot but not /usr (more and more >> > programs live there), /var

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 21:56 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 09:13:25PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > I wonder why we offer to mount /boot but not /usr (more and more > > programs live there), /var (some of them might need state there) or > > /tmp (don't want to create

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-07-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 09:13:25PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >I wonder why we offer to mount /boot but not /usr (more and more >programs live there), /var (some of them might need state there) or >/tmp (don't want to create files there that will never be cleaned up). Maybe, yes. For now I've

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 14:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steve McIntyre (2016-06-28): > > So, I've been pondering about this a little. At the moment, rescue > > just tends to mount the root filesystem and nothing else. Then the > > user is left to work out how to mount the

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-06-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 02:15:32PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2016-06-28): >> So, I've been pondering about this a little. At the moment, rescue >> just tends to mount the root filesystem and nothing else. Then the >> user is left to work out how to mount the

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-06-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2016-06-28): > So, I've been pondering about this a little. At the moment, rescue > just tends to mount the root filesystem and nothing else. Then the > user is left to work out how to mount the rest of their system (if > needed) on their own. I'm thinking we

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-06-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 03:13:13PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 09:44:08PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Steve McIntyre (2016-05-06): >>> Package: rescue-mode >>> Version: 1.51 >>> Severity: important >>> >>> If somebody is trying to debug

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-06-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 09:44:08PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre (2016-05-06): >> Package: rescue-mode >> Version: 1.51 >> Severity: important >> >> If somebody is trying to debug EFI boot problems, it's quite confusing >> for people that /boot/efi is not

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-06-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Steve McIntyre (2016-05-06): > Package: rescue-mode > Version: 1.51 > Severity: important > > If somebody is trying to debug EFI boot problems, it's quite confusing > for people that /boot/efi is not mounted automatically. *oops* Is anyone working on that? Quick

Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available

2016-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: rescue-mode Version: 1.51 Severity: important If somebody is trying to debug EFI boot problems, it's quite confusing for people that /boot/efi is not mounted automatically. What makes this even worse is that /etc/mtab will be outdated and /boot/efi will therefore *appear* to be mounted