On 04/09/2014 22:05, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that >>> actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room >>> for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so that will be larger. >> > I'm working on getting a new motherboard, Will I still be able to have > my boot filesystem on a flash-stick? Currently I have everything except > /boot on LVM on top of Physical Volumes on unpartitioned raid volumes. > Having a single drive with an odd size makes swapping drives around when > they fail and drop out of the raid a hassle, and I do not want to waste > 2G on every drive just to have a 2G boot partition. A flash stick (and > another one for backup) is very pleasant to work with. Especially when i > bork my initramfs or need to run maintenance without mounting my root > filesystem. Will this work on an EFI board ?
I don't see why it won't work. You only need /boot for two things: - at boot time, the boot loader must be able to see it so it can load the kernel - when you update grub, you will overwrite files to /boot As for as the BIOS/EFI is concerned, a stick is like an hdd - just another drive, nothing special about it. If signing is involved, it's the boot image that gets signed. I say go for it and test it out. What have you go to lose? The thing will either boot off a stick or it won't, this test won't damage anything -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
