[arch-general] Question about using an efi partition

[Bruno Pagani]

Le 30/07/2018 à 17:01, Matthew dyer via arch-general a écrit :

> 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.

It depends. Some bootloader require to use the same partition for boot
and efi, some don’t or even require the opposite for some setup (like
full-disk encryption including /boot using grub).

That being said, I don’t think there are interesting setups (at least
none came to mind) which would /require/ both a boot and efi partitions
as well as the boot partition to be independent from the / one. So only
one extra partition for both or only for EFI should be enough.

You can have more information about this by reading bootloaders wiki pages.

Regards,
Bruno

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