On 11 April 2018 at 23:02, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> | From: Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]> > | These days it > | seems you want a /boot partition though - but I'm not the one to explain > | the ins and outs of that. > > I've not seen a use for a /boot partition. > > With UEFI booting, you need a separate EFI System Partition. This > will be shared by all systems that boot off that drive. This gets > mounted on the mount point /boot/efi. It will be some variant of FAT > but the partition type will be distinct. > To correct my own post based on what Hugh said ... I was both right and horribly wrong about that. I was entirely correct "I'm not the one to explain [this]." And horribly wrong: what you usually want is what Hugh said: an EFI System Partition. I'd conflated that with a /boot/ partition because it appears there. My apologies. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected]
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