'Dereference the path if it\'s a symlink and make it absolute
elilo.conf usually is a symlink to the EFI boot partition, so we
better follow it to the proper location.'

def _follow_symlink(self):

    if os.path.islink(self.path):
        self.path_link = self.path
        self.path = os.path.realpath(self.path_link)
    self.path = os.path.abspath(self.path)
