On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 11:19 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-09-24 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at > > the beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32 > > partition for /boot, then whatever other partitions are required. > > Does /boot really have to be a FAT partition, and not ext[234]? > No. But it can simplify things.
The UEFI standard requires that boards support FAT32. They may or may not support other filesystems at the manufacturer's discretion. You can have /boot be one partition and /boot/efi be a different one if you want. But whatever you're using for an EFI partition needs to be a filesystem that your board's firmware can read. FAT32 is part of the spec, some boards will also read NTFS. I haven't personally seen any that will read the ext family, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. LMP
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