On Mon, 30.05.16 10:51, Simon McVittie (simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk) wrote:
> On 29/05/16 19:39, Barry Scott 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. > > I think mounting the EFI System Partition on /boot/efi is likely to be > very common in practice. The kernel images in /boot are managed by dpkg > on Debian derivatives, and dpkg requires (or at least strongly > recommends) a POSIX filesystem on the directories it manages, so that it > can do standard POSIX filesystem robustness tricks like hard links and > atomic-overwrite. On Fedora kernels are generally stored in /usr/lib/ (next to the kmods) and copied over to /boot at install time, so that package managers only own the kernels in /usr/lib and leave their dirty fingers out of /boot. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
