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Does UEFI needs seperate /boot partition?

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duyang.seu at gmail

Jun 8, 2012, 9:50 AM

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Does UEFI needs seperate /boot partition?

Hi,

As UEFI needs a FAT partition /boot/efi/efi,
can I create it from my previous /boot partition?

It seems the UEFI partition needs a primary one, and my disk has no
remaining primary partition available. I want to change my /boot one to
/boot/efi/efi. But not sure whether it is possible.

Many thanks!

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gentoo-user at hadt

Jun 9, 2012, 3:39 AM

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Re: Does UEFI needs seperate /boot partition? [In reply to]

> As UEFI needs a FAT partition /boot/efi/efi,
> can I create it from my previous /boot partition?

I haven't tried it yet - my /boot and /boot/efi are still two seperate
partitions on my sys - but in theory it should work just fine with only
a UEFI partition as the UEFI bootloader just loads the grub2 loader (I
don't know what it's called, sorry. but I mean the grubx64.efi file) and
then grub2 loads the rest. grub2 does not care where the stuff is, it
just needs to know where to find the files (and maybe load some extra
modules if you keep your files on a rare filesystem, raid, lvm, etc...).

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