On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that > actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room > for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so that will be larger.
If you're using gummiboot, you need to have a large EFI system partition on which to store kernels. But if you're using grub or refind, you only need to have a small FAT partition for efi executables. On my Ubuntu laptop: # du -sh /boot/efi 3.4M /boot/efi