[systemd-devel] why does bootctl default to /boot and not to /boot/efi?

[Barry Scott]

On Monday 30 May 2016 18:47:22 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sun, 29.05.16 19:39, Barry Scott (barry at barrys-emacs.org) wrote:
> > I just came across the bootctl command. Atleast on Fedora 23 and 24
> > it errors out because /boot is not FAT EFI. I thought that if you are EFI
> > then the EFI was always in /boot/efi.
> 
> /boot and the ESP exist for the same reasons really, and do the same
> job. Hence, systemd by default mounts the ESP to /boot and installs
> sd-boot there.
> 
> /boot/efi is a really crazy idea, as this means you always have to
> mount /boot (and actually have it!) before you can mount the ESP, and
> that's just off. After all in sd-boot the kernels are simply placed in
> the ESP, and there's really no point in having /boot at all...
> 
> Some distros patch sd-boot/bootctl to use /boot/efi instead, and the
> other's don't but don't mount the ESP to /boot either.  Given that it
> is that way, it might make sense to revisit the idea of making /boot
> and the ESP the same thing. But I am pretty sure /boot/efi is really
> the worst idea, hence an acceptable alternatively might be to
> introduce /efi and mount the esp there, and simply not have /boot on
> legacy free systems.

Thank you for the background.

Barry