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

[Dave Reisner]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:15:31PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Installing EFI bootloaders during pacstrap is broken right now, as is
> installing manually in arch-chroot. Therefore, mount efivarfs if the
> host kernel supports it.
> ---

Thanks, I pushed a different version of this patch which uses a new
convenience function I added, mount_conditionally:

https://projects.archlinux.org/arch-install-scripts.git/commit/?id=8f2bd395e
https://projects.archlinux.org/arch-install-scripts.git/commit/?id=c746f87fc

>  common | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/common b/common
> index 950b452..2078b56 100644
> --- a/common
> +++ b/common
> @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ api_fs_mount() {
>    { mountpoint -q "$1" || track_mount "$1" "$1" --bind; } &&
>    track_mount proc "$1/proc" -t proc -o nosuid,noexec,nodev &&
>    track_mount sys "$1/sys" -t sysfs -o nosuid,noexec,nodev &&
> +  { [[ -d "$1/sys/firmware/efi/efivars" ]] && track_mount efivarfs "$1/sys/firmware/efi/efivars" -t efivarfs -o nosuid,noexec,nodev || true; } &&
>    track_mount udev "$1/dev" -t devtmpfs -o mode=0755,nosuid &&
>    track_mount devpts "$1/dev/pts" -t devpts -o mode=0620,gid=5,nosuid,noexec &&
>    track_mount shm "$1/dev/shm" -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,nosuid,nodev &&
> -- 
> 1.8.4.2
>