On Fri, 21.03.14 17:24, Thomas Weißschuh (tho...@t-8ch.de) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:04:24PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Thomas Weißschuh <tho...@t-8ch.de> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:43:48PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > >>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Thomas Weißschuh <tho...@t-8ch.de> wrote: > >>> > While trying to use the discovereable partitions stuff I ran into the > >>> > following: > >>> > > >>> > Running systemd-efi-boot-generator on my machine results in: > >>> > "Failed to read ESP partition UUID: Input/output error" > >>> > The cause for this is that, the efi variable LoaderDevicePartUUID which > >>> > is > >>> > supposed to hold an UUID only contains the literal string "ESP", which > >>> > can't be > >>> > parsed by systemd. > >>> > >>> What does this say on your box? > >>> $ cat > >>> /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderDeviceIdentifier-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f > >>> > >>> Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1F|2)/?/HD(Part1,Sig000012AF-0666-0000-EA27-0000D6190000) > >> > >> $ cat > >> /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderDeviceIdentifier-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f > >> Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1F/2)/?/HD(Part1,SigESP) > > > > Your setup uses the *type* UUID for the EFI system partition as the > > *object* UUID of the partition? > > > > If that's the case, this cannot really work, object UUIDs need to be > > unique, created from randomness, not pre-defined. > > This did also seem wrong to me. So it is definitevely a broken system and no > configuration error on my part?
Depends. How did the ESP get set up? Did you do that manually, or did the hw vendor do that? Some installer? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
