aqk
January 1st, 2015, 06:49 PM
I recently had a few problems with grub - eventually it was re-installed and its menu seems OK.
I am using both Linux 14.04 and Windows-8.
Whenever I attempt some sort of system change - apt-get, upgrade, update etc, I get the
following errors in the terminal: (all packages now appear to be current).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up refind (0.8.4-0ppa2) ...
Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
// doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Do I really need EFI? I am runnng an "older" mainboard and the BIOS is American Megatrends V11.6
Until I recently re-installed my GRUB, these EFI errors never happened.
Even SYNAPTIC no longer works properly.
Can I get rid of the EFI? If so, how?
Or could I upgrade my above BIOS to UEFI properly? Would it even be worthwhile?
I am using both Linux 14.04 and Windows-8.
Whenever I attempt some sort of system change - apt-get, upgrade, update etc, I get the
following errors in the terminal: (all packages now appear to be current).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up refind (0.8.4-0ppa2) ...
Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
// doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Do I really need EFI? I am runnng an "older" mainboard and the BIOS is American Megatrends V11.6
Until I recently re-installed my GRUB, these EFI errors never happened.
Even SYNAPTIC no longer works properly.
Can I get rid of the EFI? If so, how?
Or could I upgrade my above BIOS to UEFI properly? Would it even be worthwhile?