30 Jul
2018
30 Jul
'18
3:14 p.m.
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:01:57 -0400 Matthew dyer via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> 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.