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/efi as ESP mountpoint

Created: 2018-07-08

Updated: 2018-07-10

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  refind-install fails to find EFI system partition if it is mounted to /efi. It looks like refind-install currently only supports /boot and /boot/efi for ESP mointpoints.
  /efi is intended as a replacement to /boot/efi, it's used by systemd-gpt-auto-generator.
  Could the support be extented to include /efi as a ESP mountpoint?
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  I've just posted an update to refind-install to add this support. If you care to test it, I'd appreciate it.
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  Oops. Thanks for fixing that! MR accepted.
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  Great! refind-install now works with /efi as the ESP mountpoint. Thank you!
  Slightly related feature request:
  It appears that for systemd-gpt-auto-generator to auto-mount the ESP (to either /boot or /efi) it needs to know the used ESP's GUID. This is done by reading the efi variable LoaderDevicePartUUID. The variable is documented in https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface/ .
  Any hope that rEFInd could set the variable?
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