Yeah. I left 512MB for the EFI partition, cause I wanted to avoid to repartition in any ways. Some guides mentioned 512MB. Maybe that's too large?
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > From the Esotarica Department, hope this saves other peoples' hair. > > My use of dumpster diver equipment is well documented. Am currently > installing CentOS 7 1511 to a customer's _new_ machine. In order for the > hardware to allow a boot from USB, one must choose UEFI as underlying > hardware boot protocol (as opposed to BIOS). So there is an additional > disk partitioning requirement when installing an OS to a UEFI system - a > requirement that a BIOS type wouldn't know of nor would anyone who just > lets the system format the disk automagically. The first partition > (/dev/sda1) must be a vfat partition (FAT32) of at least 100MB and that > partition must be labeled as /boot/efi. One may then explicitly create a > boot partition (likely /dev/sda2) labeled as /boot. > > I only learned of this as a result of having dropped back to CentOS 7 1503 > after multiple attempts at 1511; the 1503 version politely told me of the > absence of the /boot/efi partition which allowed me further investigation. > 1511 just pukes out some random python malfunction. > > Never a dull moment. > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group > /nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
