Hello everyone, Thanks for your help! I managed to get the EFI partition to my liking by installing Windows first, but before starting the install, I created my EFI partition manually by running these commands: 1. diskpart 2. list disk 3. sel disk 0 4. create partition efi size=1000 5. format quick fs=fat32 label=System
Then i continued as normal and Windows used my 1GB EFI partition. st 3. 4. 2024 v 18:22 odesílatel Waldo Lemmer <pugonfir...@gmail.com> napsal: > Hi Vit > > I presume you plan to have a single boot partition that will contain your > bootloader, kernel and initramfs. There are actually two kinds of boot > partitions that are commonly used together: > 1. The EFI system partition (ESP) contains Linux and Windows's > bootloaders. It's formatted as FAT. > 2. The extended boot (XBOOTLDR) partition contains kernels, initramfs's > and microcode. It's formatted as anything the bootloader supports (GRUB > supports FAT, ext4 and more). > > If you have a single boot partition, you're actually just combining the > above two. If you want to create more room, you can split it: > 1. Shrink your Linux partition to create space for the extended boot > partition. You can GParted from another system or bootable USB. > 2. Create and format the extended boot partition. > 3. Modify /etc/fstab so the ESP gets mounted at /efi and the XBOOTLDR gets > mounted at /boot. > 4. Mount these two partitions. > 5. If this is an existing install, move the kernel, initramfs and > microcode from /efi to /boot. Otherwise, install the bootloader and the > kernel. > 6. Re-configure your bootloader (e.g. `grub-mkconfig -o > /efi/grub/grub.cfg`). > > Now the large kernel and initramfs files don't take up space on the ESP > that's being shared with Windows. > > Alternatively, just resize the ESP. However, that breaks Windows's > bootloader since the starting point of the C:\ partition moved, so you need > to fix it from a Windows setup USB using bootrec. I can't help you with > that. > > Waldo > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 5:38 PM Vít Smolík <vit.smol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you store your initramfs on the 100mb partition? Or do you stire it >> somewhere else? >> >> May the Force be with you, >> Vít Smolík. >> >> Dne st 3. 4. 2024 17:35 uživatel Alexis Praga <alexis.pr...@proton.me> >> napsal: >> >>> Hi Vit, >>> >>> I have a dual boot with a 100Mb EFI partition. It works fine, except >>> there isn’t enough place for both old and new kernels for upgrading. So I >>> moved the old kernel from /boot into a safe directory before upgrading. >>> Maybe not the best strategy but I didn’t dare resize it. >>> >>> Alexis >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 at 17:10, Vít Smolík < >>> vit.smol...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello fellow Gentooers, >>> >>> I want to dual-boot Gentoo and M$ Windows on my computer, but windows >>> only created a 100MB EFI partition. Is it necessary to resize it so my boot >>> files will fit? If so - how to resize it so I don't mess up my Windows EFI >>> files? >>> >>> -- >>> May the Force be with you, >>> Vít Smolík. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- May the Force be with you, Vít Smolík.
