Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 15 June 2024 12:01:26 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> b) Using a bootloader: >>> >>> Mount your ESP under the /efi mountpoint. GRUB et al, will install their >>> .efi image in the /efi/EFI/ directory. You can have your /boot as a >>> directory on your / partition, or on its own separate partition with a >>> more robust fs type than ESP's FAT and your kernel images will be >>> installed in there. >> Hmmmm. If I have a separate /boot, then efi gets mounted under /boot? >> Like this: >> >> /boot/efi/<some files> > "... Mounting the ESP to /boot/efi/, as was traditionally done, is not > recommended." > > Please read: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_System_Partition#Mount_point > >> I'd like to use Grub, it's what I'm used to mostly. That way I can >> update grub with its command and I guess update the efi thingy too when >> I add kernels. I'm not sure on that tho. I could be wrong. > You can still use GRUB. Example: > ================================= > EFI Partition: /dev/nvme0n1p1 type ef00 > > Partition GUID code: C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B (EFI system > partition) > > Mountpoint: /efi > > Filesystem: FAT32 > ================= > > Then you can have a separate boot partition, example: > ===================================================== > Boot Partition: /dev/nvme0n1p2, type 8300 > > Partition GUID code: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 (Linux filesystem) > > Mountpoint: /boot > > Filesystem: ext2/3/4/xfs/btrfs/etc. > =================================== > > > [snip...] >>> ~ # du -s -h /var >>> 17G /var >> Well, it is large but it should last me a long time. Who knows what >> portage will do next. When the distfiles and such moved to /var, it's a >> good thing I was on LVM. This time, I'm not using LVM so gotta plan >> further ahead. > You can use btrfs or zfs and have /root, /home, /var, /what-ever mounted in > subvolumes. This way they will use/share the free space of the single top > level partition/disk. >
Update. I just followed the docs. I had little idea of what I was doing but I just did what it said. Dang thing booted, first time. Even my fresh new kernel worked. :-D :-D Since I was confused and thought /boot and efi could be the same partition, I ended up with /boot on the root partition. I may redo that later. It works tho. Plus, loads of space for other images etc. I still don't understand the efi thing. I'm booted up tho. I'm happy. Now to get temp sensors and stuff to work. I want to keep a eye on temps for a bit. I think the boot media was reporting the wrong info. Even the ambient temp was to high for this cool room. It showed like 100F or something when my A/C is set to 68F or so. Plus, the side is off the case at times. New battle. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
