[systemd-devel] Partition discovery broken, invalid UUID in efi variable

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Thomas Weißschuh <thomas at t-8ch.de> wrote:
> While trying to use the discovereable partitions stuff I ran into the following:
>
> Running systemd-efi-boot-generator on my machine results in:
> "Failed to read ESP partition UUID: Input/output error"
> The cause for this is that, the efi variable LoaderDevicePartUUID which is
> supposed to hold an UUID only contains the literal string "ESP", which can't be
> parsed by systemd.

What does this say on your box?
  $ cat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderDeviceIdentifier-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f
   Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1F|2)/?/HD(Part1,Sig000012AF-0666-0000-EA27-0000D6190000)

Kay