Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:45:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org>
To: Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com>
cc: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Solutions for EFI booting / copying kernels
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, Liam Proven wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 05:50, Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org> wrote:
> >
> > The kernel+initramfs are copied to /efi, where syslinux finds them.
> 
> That is the wrong mount point.
> 
> Your ESP should be mounted at `/boot/efi`. Whatever your boot loader.
>
> The Arch wiki has more info:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Syslinux#UEFI_systems

Can you more specific... how does changing the mountpoint help? (or why is 
that a problem here?)

Especially since Alpine other docs state /efi:

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition

But even that page discusses OS-specific mechanism to copy kernels to this 
partition.

-- 
Mark