[arch-general] Question about using an efi partition

[Dmitrii Tcvetkov]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:01:57 -0400
Matthew dyer via arch-general <arch-general at 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.