Bug 695904

Summary:	sys-boot/refind-0.11.4: stabilisation request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marek Szuba <marecki>
Component:	Stabilization	Assignee:	Stéphane Veyret <sveyret>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:	sys-boot/refind-0.11.4	Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marek Szuba archtester

2019-09-30 11:56:35 UTC

The install script provided by the current stable version (0.10.4-r2) does not understand the naming scheme of NVMe block devices, as a result of which new users (or people whose boot entries got clobbered) trying to install rEFInd on such a device get a cryptic "installation failed" message and have to resort to creating an appropriate EFI boot entry by hand.

Comment 1 Stéphane Veyret 2019-10-28 10:22:20 UTC

It looks like an upstream limitation. Judging by the content of the refind-install script, it seems to be corrected in more recent versions:

# 0.10.5  -- More improvement to handling of disks (other than /dev/[sh]d? disks).
# 0.10.4  -- Improved handling of disks (other than /dev/[sh]d? disks).

Shall the issue be closed?

Comment 2 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2019-11-05 16:57:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 687258 ***