"/boot != EFI partition. You should not be placing kernels in teh UEFI partition." My root filesystem (sda10 in this case) contains the kernels, the sda5 EFI partition does not. My sda10 partition does not contain a /boot/efi directory, so I created one and rebooted: sda5 is still mounted on /boot. I then renamed that directory to /boot/EFI and rebooted: sda5 is still mounted on /boot.
Sda5 only contains Grub2 (and an unofficial PartedMagic spin) and is not really an EFI partition -- this flag is a leftover from an earlier experiment. So I removed that flag and rebooted once more: sda5 is still mounted on /boot ... Perhaps superfluously I mention that I do not use Xubuntu's Grub/EFI setup, but PartedMagic's instead. The Grub stanza for Xubuntu reads: menuentry '[10] Xubuntu 16.04.2 "Xenial Xerus"' { set root=(hd0,10) linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 ro initrd /boot/initrd.gz } where /boot/vmlinuz is a symlink to ../vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.gz to ../initrd.img. The /vmlinuz and /initrd.img are symlinks back into /boot and are amended by the installing a new kernel version procedure. My /boot symlinks need no maintenance therefore. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691158 Title: systemd mounts efi partition, but /etc/fstab says "noauto" Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Systemd mounts /dev/sda5 on /boot despite the fact that /etc/fstab says: /dev/sda5 /boot ext2 noauto,relatime 0 0 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: systemd 229-4ubuntu17 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-52.55~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-52-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue May 16 17:58:49 2017 MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 ro SourcePackage: systemd SystemdDelta: [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service → /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf 2 overridden configuration files found. UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: P1.20 dmi.board.name: H110M-HDS dmi.board.vendor: ASRock dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.20:bd01/25/2016:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnH110M-HDS:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1691158/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp