'Twas brillig, and Greg KH at 09/04/13 00:48 did gyre and gimble: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:02:09AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Seems on my system, I have to load the module "efivars" before I can >> mount my efivarfs (mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars) >> >> Now, systemd should do this magically but for some reason it doesn't do >> that. > > You need a newer kernel version that properly exports the efivarfs name > to userspace, letting mount know what module to load. The 3.9-rc2 > kernel release should have this change in it, so you can either backport > the needed patch, or wait for 3.9 to be released. > > Hope this helps,
Thanks Greg, I'll hunt out the appropriate commit. I'm on 3.8.6 here and I suspect we'll stay on that for the release, so will ask our kernel maintainer to include the required support. Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel