Re: [arch-releng] [arch-install-scripts] [PATCH] common: mount efivarfs if possible, but don't bail out if it fails

Am 15.11.2013 16:31, schrieb Dave Reisner:

What makes this mount so special that we should avoid failing if it doesn't mount? Why would it be any more or less prone to failure if it was successfully mounted in the host?

Nobody says that it was mounted on the host. When a recent kernel boots in EFI mode, it always creates the directory /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/, regardless whether support for efivarfs was configured in the kernel (see drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c). That means that we might have the directory and the mount will still always fail. Anyway, failing to mount efivarfs should not prevent you from using arch-chroot, as it only prevents you from manipulating efi variables, but not from performing other important tasks.