On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > 3) For EFI-based GPT, there's another entirely separate special reserved > partition for the EFI system.
An EFI partition can reside on a disk with an MBR (legacy) partitioning scheme, GPT scheme, El Torito CD-ROM boot entry, etc. For MBR, 0xEF partition ID is used, and the same platform ID is used in El Torito; GPT uses a corresponding GUID. > According to the EFI spec, this must be > formatted FAT32, No, the UEFI specification mandates that FAT12/16/32 EFI partitions must be supported, but allows the firmware to support other filesystems, with or without the 0xEF / GUID marker above. > and should be 256 MB or so. No such requirement. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte
