The Wanderer writes ("Re: Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs
moutning"):
> I'm not sure what's making the difference (unless this is already fixed
> for testing, and you're only discussing whether to backport the fix to
> current stable, which I think doesn't sound like it is the case),
Perhaps the initramfs mounts it ? I can't conveniently check.
> and I'm not sure where to look to try to find out - but whatever fix
> is found for anyone experiencing this problem, it'll be important to
> make sure it doesn't break people for whom this *is* working.
Certainly.
I suggest the following approach in mountkernfs:
- See if /sys/firmware/efi/efivars exists.
- If it does, and nothing is mounted on it yet, try to mount
efivarfs with the runes earlier in this bug.
- If that mount fails, print an error message, but otherwise
do not treat this as an error.
If you think this is a good plan I will send a patch. Would each of
you be willing to do a test reboot with it ?
Ian.
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