On 09/04/2014 01:05 PM, 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 ? > >
It should work with no issues. You may want to boot it in EFI mode as some motherboards cripple functionality in 'legacy' mode. I just ran into that with hdmi audio passthrough not working on an Intel NUC I recently set up. It is possible to boot in EFI mode off of a USB, as I used a Mint ISO to boot from in EFI mode. I would presume the USB needs to have the FAT partition that EFI requires. Dan
