I'd like to add: the file system is vfat. The driver used to mount was not. To me it made a difference as I remember clearly to have created the partition.
Am 23. Januar 2020 14:57:06 MEZ schrieb Rod Smith <rodsm...@rodsbooks.com>: >On 1/22/20 6:54 PM, Tianon Gravi wrote: >> On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 09:40, Pelzi <pe...@feldner-bv.de> wrote: >>> I found the cure for the problem: the ESP partition was listed as fs >type „msdos“ in fstab. Changing this to „vfat" made refind-install work >for me. >> >> Ah nice catch! So it sounds like at most, this should be an upstream >> feature request to have refind-install warn if fstab includes >> "/boot/efi" but it's not vfat or something like that? > >Sorry for not responding earlier, but I've been suffering from an ear >infection lately that's made it hard to do much of anything. > >In any event, refind-install already warns of this, and that warning >was >shown in the output presented earlier: > >> $ sudo refind-install >> ShimSource is none >> Installing rEFInd on Linux.... >> The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it.... >> mount: /boot/efi: /dev/sda2 already mounted on /boot/efi. >> ////boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be >> mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting! > >That said, the warning could admittedly be more explicit that msdos is >not an acceptable filesystem driver in this context. OTOH, presenting a >disseration on the differences between the Linux vfat and msdos drivers >in this warning would be overkill. Probably changing "...it must be >VFAT!" to "...it must be VFAT (not msdos)!" would help. I've just >pushed >that change to the rEFInd git repository. > >-- >Rod Smith >rodsm...@rodsbooks.com >http://www.rodsbooks.com
