On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 10:28:50 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Here /boot changes from fat32 to ext2. > > Since this is my first U/EFI system I am a little confused. > > Good morning Meino, > > For U.E.F.I., the boot partition (/dev/sda2) must be FAT32. In your > fstab file, this is written as (the last three arguments may vary for > your system): > > /dev/sda2 /boot vfat defaults,noatime 0 2 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Using_UEFI
This isn't strictly true, the ESP must be vfat, but you can still have an ext? /boot. However, it generally makes sense to have the ESP and /boot as the same partition, that's how I generally do it. either way, the handbook appears to need updating in this respect. -- Neil Bothwick Don't just do something, sit there!
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