Bug#902544: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Kernel installation fails when /boot is FAT partition

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#902544: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Kernel installation fails when /boot is FAT partition
Date	2018-06-29 01:00 +0200
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On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 18:21 +0200, Josef Kufner wrote:
[...]
> Reason why it is unable to make the backup link is that my /boot is on EFI
> partition which is FAT:
[...]

This will occur if you upgrade *any* package that installs files on
/boot.  For that reason, Debian does not support /boot being on FAT or
similarly limited filesystems, and the conventional location for
mounting the EFI boot partition is /boot/efi.

(Certain Debian derivatives do support your configuration by not having
any packages that install files in /boot.)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Bug#902544: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Kernel installation fails when /boot is FAT partition Josef Kufner <jk@frozen-doe.net> - 2018-06-27 18:40 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#902544: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Kernel  installation fails when /boot is FAT partition "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-06-29 01:00 +0200
  Bug#902544: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Kernel installation fails when /boot is FAT partition Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-06-29 01:00 +0200

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