Bug#962506: marked as done (grub: grub-install puts wrong partition to `load.cfg`)

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 06:21:05AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

...

>On the Debian install, grml-debootstrap set up `/etc/fstab` to mount the ESP
>at `/boot/efi`, while it is needed at `/boot`. That is what I was doing when
>booting the Grml live system and chroot’ing into it. So that is why it worked
>differently.
>
>Therefore, I am closing the issue. Sorry for the noise.

I have to ask: *why* are you trying to force the ESP to be /boot
rather than /boot/efi, the default for Debian setups? At the very
least, you will see problems using a FAT filesystem for a location
where dpkg tries to install things - it expects to use filesystem
semantics that FAT cannot provide.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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