[TriLUG] I "discovered" a bug! ( continued )
Brian McCullough via TriLUG
trilug at trilug.org
Wed Nov 28 19:06:30 EST 2018
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 05:17:49PM -0500, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> NovaLUG had a brilliant EFI and GPT presentation about 18 months ago. It???s up on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGDXy65Plg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGDXy65Plg> I recommend watching it.
>
> No, you can???t make the /boot the EFI partition anymore than you can install the MBR in /boot. Yes, EFI has to be FAT, because that???s what the firmware can read. It???ll be separate from /boot.
Yes, I understood that. I was replacing /boot with the EFI partition. (
re-using as ) /boot would then be inside /. It didn't give any clues
as to why it didn't work. Perhaps it had to be a certain minimum size,
but didn't say so.
Brian
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