Re: [EXTERNAL] [gentoo-user] Re: UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

[Laurence Perkins]

On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 11:19 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2019-09-24 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 
> > The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at
> > the beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32
> > partition for /boot, then whatever other partitions are required.
> 
> Does /boot really have to be a FAT partition, and not ext[234]?
> 
No.  But it can simplify things.

The UEFI standard requires that boards support FAT32.  They may or may
not support other filesystems at the manufacturer's discretion.

You can have /boot be one partition and /boot/efi be a different one if
you want.  But whatever you're using for an EFI partition needs to be a
filesystem that your board's firmware can read.  FAT32 is part of the
spec, some boards will also read NTFS.  I haven't personally seen any
that will read the ext family, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

LMP


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[gentoo-user] Re: UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2019-09-24 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at
> the beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32
> partition for /boot, then whatever other partitions are required.

Does /boot really have to be a FAT partition, and not ext[234]?

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