Re: EFI partition

2019-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/19 1:35 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: What is the advantage in having the /boot/efi on a single partition, and not /boot for example (which was the case before EFI)? UEFI doesn't boot from code stuffed into a tiny section of the MBR.  Under UEFI, the non-volatile RAM holds a description of

Re: EFI partition

2019-06-21 Thread stan via users
#x27;s not really an advantage, it's a requirement. Hardware vendors mande EFI dependent on windows, and the windows standard calls for a fat32 partition. So if linux wants to have secure boot, they have to have an efi partition that is fat32. But everything else in boot is for the OS an

EFI partition

2019-06-21 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, What is the advantage in having the /boot/efi on a single partition, and not /boot for example (which was the case before EFI)? In addition, the /boot/efi is a fat32. Thank to clarify this point. === Patrick DUPRÉ

Sharing EFS / EFI partition between Windows 8 and Fedora 20

2013-10-28 Thread Pedro Francisco
Hello! I've installed Fedora 20 on a Asus N550jv with no apparent issues. Thing is, I accepted Anaconda's suggestion of having two EFS / EFI partition, one for Windows (left untouched) and other for Fedora. It is done, installed but... sounds messy. Questions: 1- What are the adv