Re: [arch-general] Question about using an efi partition
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:01:57 -0400 Matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Hi all, > > Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi > partition for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition > the same as say a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I > need to have an extra partition for a boot partition or is this efi > partition used as the boot partition. I did not see anything > regarding this in the wiki so thought I would ask here. > ESP (EFI system partition) is needed to EFI firmware to load bootloader from it. In BIOS boot MBR provides the same function - store bootloader code. ESP is more convient in that regard since it's a FAT32 filesystem instead of a binary blob.
Re: [arch-general] Question about using an efi partition
Le 30/07/2018 à 17:01, Matthew dyer via arch-general a écrit : > Hi all, > > Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi partition > for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition the same as say > a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I need to have an extra > partition for a boot partition or is this efi partition used as the boot > partition. I did not see anything regarding this in the wiki so thought I > would ask here. It depends. Some bootloader require to use the same partition for boot and efi, some don’t or even require the opposite for some setup (like full-disk encryption including /boot using grub). That being said, I don’t think there are interesting setups (at least none came to mind) which would /require/ both a boot and efi partitions as well as the boot partition to be independent from the / one. So only one extra partition for both or only for EFI should be enough. You can have more information about this by reading bootloaders wiki pages. Regards, Bruno signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[arch-general] Question about using an efi partition
Hi all, Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi partition for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition the same as say a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I need to have an extra partition for a boot partition or is this efi partition used as the boot partition. I did not see anything regarding this in the wiki so thought I would ask here. Matthew
