[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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