On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:41:34 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:26:47 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Now you see, there seem to be two ways to arrange the esp and boot > > partitions. The gentoo wiki says to leave a small unpartitioned space > > for esp data, then create a vfat partition for /boot. That's what I > > did. Other people seem to have both functions served by the /boot > > partition. I think I tried that once but got snarled up somewhere. > > I was under the impression that the ESP had to be a FAT partition. The > small unpartitioned space is for when you are using a GPT > partition table with a non-EFI bootloader. Well, it's really unformatted, > it is a partition.
Ah. I didn't appreciate that. Looks like I misinterpreted the wiki page (and I used to be able to read quite well, too.) > That's how I do it on non-EFI systems, on UEFI machines, I always make > /boot a FAT partition and use it as the ESP too. I'll try that. Thanks Neil. -- Regards, Peter.
