On 12/6/23 04:31, Michael wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 23:53:23 GMT Peter Humphreey wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:35:11 GMT Michael wrote:
Your boot partition is /dev/nvme0n1p1 and its mountpoint is /boot. You
must create this partition with the appropriate EFI System type (in gdisk
use EF00).
The /efi directory must be at the top of the /boot partition filesystem,
accessible via /boot/efi.
I've been operating that way for some years, but I have reason to believe
that things have changed. I'll start a new thread tomorrow.
Both Peters are right and my previous answer was wrong for Thelma's usecase,
the /boot directory must be on a linux fs which understands symlinks *if
vmlinuz is used* - this is because the ESP partition's FAT fs cannot use
symlinks.
The /efi directory *must* be on a FAT fs and contain the grubx64.efi, or any
other bootloader *.efi image.
If kernels are copied manually and vmlinuz symlinks are not used then a FAT
partition with mountpoint on /boot and containing the /boot/efi directory will
work as intended.
Thanks for Peters explanation now it is clear to me how it works.
But I have a question, in Gentoo manual hand book
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks
the instruction is to create 1 GiB partition for /efi
Why so large, do others file system need it so much?
In my case /efi take only 1%
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1022M 280K 1022M 1% /efi
