A BIOS boot partition would not typically have a file system. Why both a GUID signature associated with legacy BIOS boot and an efi executable would be on a partition labelled as a BIOS boot partition is a mystery to me.
What is your goal? On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 7:31 AM Moses Gold <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. Does that mean that the grubx64.efi on this partition is > extraneous? > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 9:55 PM, Randy Goldenberg < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> EF02 is a BIOS boot partition. >> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 6:04 PM Moses Gold <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The BIOS_grub GUID signature: >>> "48 61 68 21 49 64 6F 6E 74 4E 65 65 64 45 46 49 -- Hah!IdontNeedEFI" >>> is contained within my EFI partition after a recent grub install (grub >>> and >>> EFI added during same Linux installation). Specifically, the EFI >>> partition >>> begins at sector 1 of my boot device /dev/nvme0n1 and the BIOS_grub >>> signature appears at sector 2. gdisk says the following: >>> >>> Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name >>> 1 2048 1628159 794.0 MiB EF02 >>> >>> Is this the normal predicted configuration of BIOS_grub with an EFI >>> partition? >>> >>
