Ken Moffat wrote:
If you are using GPT partitions, the BIOS boot partition is a guard for the real GPT partitions. It is not the same as a partition where you put /boot. See my follow-up post from earlier about adding extra things to grub.cfg. The /boot partition can be any of the partitions, but it is conventional on a GPT disk to protect it with a BIOS boot partition.
Ken, Your terminology is not quite correct. In an MSDOS partition table, grub writes it's code in the area between sector 1 and the first partition. For GPT that area is used for the partition table data so a special partition is needed for grub to write its code. It doesn't 'protect' grub, it is where the grub code actually resides.
You are quite correct that the BIOS Partition, Code ef02 if you are using gdisk, is not where /boot resides.
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