Subiquity crashes when the user places /boot on a FAT filesystem
Bug #2062085 reported by
Chris Peterson
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| subiquity |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In multiple private reports, we are seeing an issue where users are placing /boot on a FAT-based filesystem (fat32, vfat, etc.) and Curtin crashes while installing the kernel due to the following error:
Failed to create symlink to vmlinuz-
From what I understand, FAT filesystems don't support symlinks. Since this seems be a requirement of the kernel packaging, we should block users from placing /boot on a FAT partition in the first place.
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| Chris Peterson (cpete) wrote | #1 |
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Based on at least one user report FAT is safe for /boot/efi, at least as far as completing the install goes.