On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> I received the following bug report in Debian about
> gummiboot.
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:04:23AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> Package: gummiboot
>> Version: 44-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> gummiboot fails to install if there is a preexisting EFI boot loader in
>> the fallback location (e.g. after a successful installation of Windows):
>>
>> pkern@simplex ~ % sudo gummiboot install --path=/boot/efi
>> Created /boot/efi/EFI/gummiboot.
>> Copied /usr/lib/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi to
>> /boot/efi/EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi.
>> Failed to rename /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI~ to
>> /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI: File exists
>
> As we can see here, it tries to do an atomic replace of the boot loader,
> but this fails because /boot/efi (we need to use /boot/efi in Debian instead
> of /boot, because our kernel images are installed in /boot) is FAT32 and
> that does not seem to allow replacements.
It works just fine here on a FAT partition. I have no idea why it
would go wrong.
# blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: LABEL="EFI" UUID="9B5C-C8BD" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="ESP"
PARTUUID="06a08fe0-82e8-4171-b00e-5afc13668ab4"
# strace -e rename gummiboot install --path=/boot
rename("/boot/EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi~",
"/boot/EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi") = 0
Copied /usr/lib/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi to
/boot/EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi.
rename("/boot/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI~", "/boot/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI") = 0
Copied /usr/lib/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi to /boot/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI.
Created EFI boot entry "Linux Boot Manager".
Kay
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