On Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:39:47 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:08:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I wonder, would there ever be any valid reason to have the E.S.P.\ > > > and /boot as different partitions ? > > > > I found I had to do so. I couldn't get Neil's prererred layout to work. > > I forget the details now, but I only managed to build a usable system > > by leaving a small unformatted partition before the VFAT /boot > > partition. The first partition is marked bios_grub and the second > > 'boot, esp'. > > > > I did try later to combine the two, but I still couldn't get it to > > work. Perhaps the BIOS has something odd in it. > > If you are using a BIOS system, you need the compatibility partition at > the start. If you are using UEFI it shouldn't be necessary.
No, I know, but it is - unless I'm doing something daft, of course. -- Regards, Peter.
