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On 16/09/19 08:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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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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Umm no ... |
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aiui, Macs don't have FAT partitions, but they still use EFI. |
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I had this discussion with someone who knew what they were talking |
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about, and the spec says that FAT is the "least common denominator" - |
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all EFI bootloaders must understand FAT. They can understand more, so if |
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a loader understands ext4 you could use that, but you know for certain |
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that if you use (a certain version of) FAT32, then things will work. |
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Macs understand HFS or whatever it is they use, so they don't need FAT. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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