On Monday 30 May 2016 18:47:22 Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sun, 29.05.16 19:39, Barry Scott (ba...@barrys-emacs.org) wrote: > > I just came across the bootctl command. Atleast on Fedora 23 and 24 > > it errors out because /boot is not FAT EFI. I thought that if you are EFI > > then the EFI was always in /boot/efi. > > /boot and the ESP exist for the same reasons really, and do the same > job. Hence, systemd by default mounts the ESP to /boot and installs > sd-boot there. > > /boot/efi is a really crazy idea, as this means you always have to > mount /boot (and actually have it!) before you can mount the ESP, and > that's just off. After all in sd-boot the kernels are simply placed in > the ESP, and there's really no point in having /boot at all... > > Some distros patch sd-boot/bootctl to use /boot/efi instead, and the > other's don't but don't mount the ESP to /boot either. Given that it > is that way, it might make sense to revisit the idea of making /boot > and the ESP the same thing. But I am pretty sure /boot/efi is really > the worst idea, hence an acceptable alternatively might be to > introduce /efi and mount the esp there, and simply not have /boot on > legacy free systems.
Thank you for the background. Barry _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
