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Bug#823612: rescue-mode should mount /boot/efi if it's available



On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 02:15:32PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2016-06-28):
>> So, I've been pondering about this a little. At the moment, rescue
>> just tends to mount the root filesystem and nothing else. Then the
>> user is left to work out how to mount the rest of their system (if
>> needed) on their own. I'm thinking we could/should improve this - once
>> we've mounted the rootfs, we could offer to mount (likely-looking?)
>> other filesystems from /etc/fstab. Maybe with a selection interface,
>> and we automatically tag the likely ones?
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
>Your summary isn't entirely accurate: we already prompt when separate
>boot is detected; we could elaborate on that for /boot/efi, which was
>my initial point.

Ah, OK. Thanks for correcting me. I should actually look at the
code... :-)

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
< Aardvark> I dislike C++ to start with. C++11 just seems to be
            handing rope-creating factories for users to hang multiple
            instances of themselves.


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