| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Or, does distro need its own EFI partitions, like
As others have said, you "should" have only one ESP (EFI System Partition). Here are some odd-ball other considerations. - I've heard that Windows cannot handle multiple ESPs on a disk. - I once accidentally created a second ESP on a drive. It worked but behaviour was a bit odd. When I figured it out, I deleted one (copying stuff that wasn't already on the remaining ESP) - You might decide to have an ESP on each disk of a multi-disk system. This could let you point the firmware at the disk to boot. This is generally not necessary: an ESP boot entry can point at a different disk. - Certainly a bootable USB stick would have its own ESP. - firmware setup pages are sometimes bad at configuring boot options. There is a chance that using multiple ESPs would not work with a particular firmware, or that it would actually make dual booting less awkward. Summary: a single system-wide is usually the best choice. There are odd-ball cases where more ESPs might be useful. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
