[lfs] branch trunk updated: Touch up discussion of UEFI partition in fstab.

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commit b9542eb837ae5e2c7bde8016aef88afdaee1c5c7
Author: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Apr 7 11:27:35 2026 -0500

    Touch up discussion of UEFI partition in fstab.
    
    Add a note to say UEFI partition only needs to be mounted when running
    grub-install or to inspect the partition.  It may be needed in BLFS when using
    efibootmgr.  It is definitly not needed to be in fstab for the boot process
    to work.
    
    I also needed to remove several unneeded options in the example fstab
    line because it ran off the right side of the page.  It's a bit
    unfortunate that fstab does not have the capability of understanding
    backslash-newline.
---
 chapter10/fstab.xml | 21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chapter10/fstab.xml b/chapter10/fstab.xml
index ad5ae2a41..c5128ebbd 100644
--- a/chapter10/fstab.xml
+++ b/chapter10/fstab.xml
@@ -89,33 +89,42 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
   interpreted in the UTF-8 locale.</para>
 
   <para>
-    When booting with UEFI, the ESP must be formatted as a FAT filesystem, most
+    When installing GRUB with UEFI, the ESP must be formatted as a FAT filesystem, most
     commonly VFAT. This file sees it as VFAT regardless. An example of how you
     would go about an entry for the ESP would look like this:
   </para>
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/fstab &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal>/dev/<replaceable>&lt;zzz&gt;</replaceable>     /boot/efi    vfat     rw,relatime,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2</literal>
+<literal>/dev/<replaceable>&lt;zzz&gt;</replaceable>  /boot/efi  vfat  rw,relatime,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1   0   2</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>
     The <literal>iso8859-1</literal> IO charset is used here since UEFI
     firmware implementations search for <filename
     class="directory">\EFI\BOOT\BOOT...EFI</filename>, which in a
-    case-sensitive environment would not be satisfied. So that charset is used
-    to ensure the EFI image can be found.
+    case-sensitive environment would not be satisfied. 
   </para>
 
-  <!--note>
+  <note>
+    <para>
+      The EFI filesystem only needs to be mounted when installing GRUB.  
+      The system uses this partition before the kernel is loaded and is not used
+      otherwise.  An alternative to adding this entry to the fstab file is to
+      manually mount it before running <command>grub-install</command> below
+      in <xref linkend="ch-bootable-grub"/>.
+    </para>
+  </note>
+
     <para>In the latter case, the kernel emits the following message:</para>
 
+<!--  <note>
 <screen><computeroutput>FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
     filesystem will be case sensitive!</computeroutput></screen>
 
     <para>This negative recommendation should be ignored, since all other values
     of the <quote>iocharset</quote> option result in wrong display of filenames in
     UTF-8 locales.</para>
-  </note-->
+  </note>-->
 
   <para>It is also possible to specify default codepage and iocharset values for
   some filesystems during kernel configuration. The relevant parameters

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