Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-05 Thread Vít Smolík
Hello everyone, Thanks for your help! I managed to get the EFI partition to my liking by installing Windows first, but before starting the install, I created my EFI partition manually by running these commands: 1. diskpart 2. list disk 3. sel disk 0 4. create partition efi size=1000 5. format

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-03 Thread Waldo Lemmer
Hi Vit I presume you plan to have a single boot partition that will contain your bootloader, kernel and initramfs. There are actually two kinds of boot partitions that are commonly used together: 1. The EFI system partition (ESP) contains Linux and Windows's bootloaders. It's formatted as FAT. 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-03 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 16:10:41 BST Vít Smolík wrote: > Hello fellow Gentooers, > > I want to dual-boot Gentoo and M$ Windows on my computer, but windows only > created a 100MB EFI partition. Is it necessary to resize it so my boot > files will fit? If so - how to resize it so I don't mess up

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-03 Thread Vít Smolík
Do you store your initramfs on the 100mb partition? Or do you stire it somewhere else? May the Force be with you, Vít Smolík. Dne st 3. 4. 2024 17:35 uživatel Alexis Praga napsal: > Hi Vit, > > I have a dual boot with a 100Mb EFI partition. It works fine, except there > isn’t enough place for

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-03 Thread Alexis Praga
Hi Vit, I have a dual boot with a 100Mb EFI partition. It works fine, except there isn’t enough place for both old and new kernels for upgrading. So I moved the old kernel from /boot into a safe directory before upgrading. Maybe not the best strategy but I didn’t dare resize it. Alexis On

[gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-03 Thread Vít Smolík
Hello fellow Gentooers, I want to dual-boot Gentoo and M$ Windows on my computer, but windows only created a 100MB EFI partition. Is it necessary to resize it so my boot files will fit? If so - how to resize it so I don't mess up my Windows EFI files? -- May the Force be with you, Vít Smolík.