Restore /boot/efi

Question

Recently I apparently corrupted my /boot/efi partition, I got according error messages at boot and a manual console to remount it.

I tried to reformat it (mkfs.vfat 32), reinstalled grub (grub-install), and updated fstab to the new UUID, however now it still fails to mount with FAT-fs (sda1): IO charset iso8859-1 not found.

Solution

UPDATE: since /boot/efi became corrupted I slapped together a vulgar script to recreate /boot/efi. Use at your own risk!

After finding the message above (by entering the manual recovery commandline offered and running dmesg | tail) I tried manual mounting. This failed as well.

Googling turned up that one should check whether the module nls_iso8859-1.ko could be loaded. So I tried running sudo modprobe nls_iso8859-1. This turned up an error about nort beeing able to open the dependency database. Recreating the dependency database with depmod fixed the issue.

Comments

[Chiptus]

depmod fixed it for me, Thanks!

[Salih Karagoz]

'depmod' saved my day. Thx, i am writing from the rescued machine :)