On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:13:30 -0500 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >Plus, I > >want to have a common-shared /boot partition for possible future > >upgrades or expansions. > > This is a really bad idea, and will cause far more trouble than it can > possibly save in the future. You do need one EFI partition per system, > and you can have different directories there for different OSs. > You misunderstood as I was too general in my post about partitioning. I WILL have a dedicated EFI System Partition (ESP) formatted FAT32 marked with the "boot" flag AS WELL AS a dedicated partition with a mount point of /boot /boot/efi will be the mount point for the ESP. As far as I've read UEFI booting firmware, etc. does not require this. It's a Linux recommendation. But I could be wrong: UEFI/GPT is new to me. Thanks for the response. B
