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On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:41:34 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:26:47 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Now you see, there seem to be two ways to arrange the esp and boot |
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> > partitions. The gentoo wiki says to leave a small unpartitioned space |
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> > for esp data, then create a vfat partition for /boot. That's what I |
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> > did. Other people seem to have both functions served by the /boot |
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> > partition. I think I tried that once but got snarled up somewhere. |
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> I was under the impression that the ESP had to be a FAT partition. The |
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> small unpartitioned space is for when you are using a GPT |
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> partition table with a non-EFI bootloader. Well, it's really unformatted, |
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> it is a partition. |
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Ah. I didn't appreciate that. Looks like I misinterpreted the wiki page (and I |
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used to be able to read quite well, too.) |
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> That's how I do it on non-EFI systems, on UEFI machines, I always make |
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> /boot a FAT partition and use it as the ESP too. |
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I'll try that. Thanks Neil. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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