[systemd-devel] Mounting efivars / efivarfs

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:02:09AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Seems on my system, I have to load the module "efivars" before I can
> mount my efivarfs (mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars)
> 
> Now, systemd should do this magically but for some reason it doesn't do
> that.

You need a newer kernel version that properly exports the efivarfs name
to userspace, letting mount know what module to load.  The 3.9-rc2
kernel release should have this change in it, so you can either backport
the needed patch, or wait for 3.9 to be released.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h