Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread stan via users
veral > >> disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? > > > > It will work as long as none of the installed distributions are > > duplicated, because that will duplicate the label. e.g. default > > fedora label is fedora, so if more than one is installed there will

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 11:20 AM, stan via users wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:54:51 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> If I have several distributions on a single machine with several >> disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? > > It will work as lo

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:54:51 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > If I have several distributions on a single machine with several > disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? It will work as long as none of the installed distributions are duplicated, because that will duplicate the label

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 10:54 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > If I have several distributions on a single machine with several > disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? That is the general idea. It's part of the system bootloader, and different OSs put their bits in there. You'll

/boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, If I have several distributions on a single machine with several disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? Thank === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
d to mount /boot/efi > > On Jul 17, 2021, at 04:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > Then, > > mount /boot/efi > > mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. > > > > I also noted during the load: > > FAILED: failed to start load kernel

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Jonathan Billings
xt4 > defaults1 1 > UUID=B2EF-0CE4 /boot/efi vfat > umask=0077,shortname=winnt,nofail 0 2 > > /boot/efi is mounted properly with fc32. > > Is it an issue with the modules ? You never answered my question. Can you share with us the output o

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks for the feedback, However, I do not understand. Do you mean in the grub configuration /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg I have menuentry 'Fedora 34 (Workstation Edition) (on /dev/sda6)' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-gnulinux-/boot/vmli

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Roger Heflin
> UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 > defaults 1 1 > UUID=B2EF-0CE4 /boot/efi vfat > umask=0077,shortname=winnt,nofail 0 2 > > /boot/efi is mounted properly with fc32. > > Is it an issue with the modules ? >

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, It is now 2 days that I am stuck with this issue. I search on internet, but I did not find clear solutions which I could trust. Here is the fstab UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 defaults1 1 UUID=B2EF-0CE4 /boot/efi

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-17 Thread Roger Heflin
t; Then, > > mount /boot/efi > > mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. > > > > I also noted during the load: > > FAILED: failed to start load kernel modules > > You appear to be booting into a kernel that doesn’t have any kernel modules >

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-17 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 17, 2021, at 04:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Then, > mount /boot/efi > mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. > > I also noted during the load: > FAILED: failed to start load kernel modules You appear to be booting into a kernel that doesn’t hav

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks, nofail let me run the initialization. Then, mount /boot/efi mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. I also noted during the load: FAILED: failed to start load kernel modules Now journalctl -b -o short-monotonic --no-hostname It is long, I noted (in red): [

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:20 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I collected the maximum information that I could > > Failed Mounting /boot/efi > See "systemctl boot-efi" for details > Dependency failed for local file system > Dependency failed for mark the ... to relabel a

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
I collected the maximum information that I could Failed Mounting /boot/efi See "systemctl boot-efi" for details Dependency failed for local file system Dependency failed for mark the ... to relabel after reboot Stopped You are in emergency mode. After logging in type "journalc

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
t;cannot boot" means because it > doesn't tell me how it's failing. > > > > I get > > failed to mount /boot/efi > > /boot/efi is shared by both machines > > > > Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine > > > > # > > UUID=a5b809ae-

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:31 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I have been able to boot on a rescue kernel! > Linux localhost.localdomain 5.6.13-100.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 00:36:06 > UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > bootctl > systemd-boot not installed in ESP. > System: > Firmwa

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
tell me how it's failing. > I get > failed to mount /boot/efi > /boot/efi is shared by both machines > > Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine > > # > UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 > defaults1 1 > UUID=B2EF

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
fc34, I cannot boot on the new fc34. > I get > failed to mount /boot/efi > /boot/efi is shared by both machines > > Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine > > # > UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 > defaults

failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On a dual boot machine (one fc32, and one fc34). after I upgraded the fc32 to fc34, I cannot boot on the new fc34. I get failed to mount /boot/efi /boot/efi is shared by both machines Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine # UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the suggestions. I did boot off liveusb and ran fsck on /boot/efi. It did report problems, and I answered questions with wild guesses. Seems to be OK now, and the dnf update completed OK. On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 3:55 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/25/2020 12:42 PM, Sam Varshavc

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/25/2020 12:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Perhaps the /boot/efi FAT partition got corrupted. Try fscking it. Before you go that far, you might consider trying this: df -h /boot/efi This will tell you how much space is used and how much is free, in a human readable format

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Neal Becker writes: « HTML content follows » Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on /boot/efi.  Any idea how I can fix this?   installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs 6MB on the /boot/efi filesystem Error Summary

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:30:24 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on > /boot/efi. Any idea how I can fix this? > > installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs > 6MB on the /boot/efi filesystem >

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 14:31, Neal Becker wrote: > Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on > /boot/efi. Any idea how I can fix this? > > installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs 6MB > on the /boot/efi filesystem &g

need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Neal Becker
Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on /boot/efi. Any idea how I can fix this? installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs 6MB on the /boot/efi filesystem Error Summary - Disk Requirements: At least 6MB more space needed on

Re: /boot/efi on RAID-1 (mdraid)

2019-10-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 18:17 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Doesn't really matter, just curious that Anaconda sets /dev/sdb4 to > be first in the boot order. Did you install from some kind of boot disc? That can shuffle the order of things, so (temporarily) it's sda, maki

Re: /boot/efi on RAID-1 (mdraid)

2019-10-30 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 18:17 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Doesn't really matter, just curious that Anaconda sets /dev/sdb4 to > be first in the boot order. Did you install from some kind of boot disc? That can shuffle the order of things, so (temporarily) it's sda, making your drives sdb, sdc,

Re: /boot/efi on RAID-1 (mdraid)

2019-10-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gordon Messmer writes: On 10/28/19 4:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: With BIOS I knew I needed to run grub-install to manually install grub on /dev/sdb in addition to /dev/sda; do I need to do anything analogous to that, with EFI? Typically, no.  Anaconda should have created boot records fo

Re: /boot/efi on RAID-1 (mdraid)

2019-10-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/28/19 4:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: With BIOS I knew I needed to run grub-install to manually install grub on /dev/sdb in addition to /dev/sda; do I need to do anything analogous to that, with EFI? Typically, no.  Anaconda should have created boot records for both.  Use "efibootmgr

Re: /boot/efi on RAID-1 (mdraid)

2019-10-29 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/28/19 4:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I want to make sure that in the event one of the disks fail I'll be able to boot off the other one. Are any additional steps needed for this, beyond the ones that were done by F30's installer? You could make another EFI boot entry that points to the

/boot/efi on RAID-1 (mdraid)

2019-10-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I installed F30 on a replacement server with two HDDs. My existing hardware earned its well-deserved retirement. My replacement hardware is the first server hardware I'm using that uses EFI and the GPT. I configured all my partitions with mdraid, including /boot/efi: /dev/md124 on /boo

Re: Rescue boot - Cannot mount vfat partition - /boot/efi System won't boot

2015-04-12 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-04-09 20:52, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, A Fedora 21 laptop that was working now will not boot. Fully updated dual boot machine. Windows quit working but Fedora worked until last night. Trying to boot today, it won't mount the efi partition. /boot/efi so the boot process cannot

Re: /boot/efi in a dual boot system

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 31, 2014, at 8:50 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > As I type this, I'm installing Fedora 20 on a UEFI system which already > has CentOS 7 (and nothing else). > > Should the two systems share /boot/efi? Ideally yes, although it's not required by the UEFI spec. &

/boot/efi in a dual boot system

2014-08-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
As I type this, I'm installing Fedora 20 on a UEFI system which already has CentOS 7 (and nothing else). Should the two systems share /boot/efi? As I understand it, the answer is yes: /boot/efi is universal on a machine. It is where the firmware goes to load things. Not just OS bootl