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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that |
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> actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room |
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> for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so that will be larger. |
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If you're using gummiboot, you need to have a large EFI system |
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partition on which to store kernels. |
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But if you're using grub or refind, you only need to have a small FAT |
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partition for efi executables. |
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On my Ubuntu laptop: |
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# du -sh /boot/efi |
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3.4M /boot/efi |
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