Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/5/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : > > [FAT, hard links] > >> >a feature that is crucial for dpkg. >> >> I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create >>

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2020 à 11:00, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : [FAT, hard links] a feature that is crucial for dpkg. I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : [FAT, hard links] > >a feature that is crucial for dpkg. > > I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create > additional hard links. Can you refresh my memories ?

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2020-01-04 13:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Some new boot specification mounts the EFI partition on /boot Citation needed, which specification is that? Freedesktop/systemd's Boot Loader Specification.

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-01-04 13:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > >> If I had not created that /boot partition would those files be in >> /boot folder on the / (root) partition or would /boot then be on the >> EFI partition? > > On the root partition. Some new

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi, > > > > I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the > beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after > disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be > able to boot from a file anywhere on the disk. >

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit : I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be able to boot from a file anywhere on the

uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be able to boot from a file anywhere on the disk. So far so good, that still works