On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:08:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I wonder, would there ever be any valid reason to have the E.S.P.\ > > and /boot as different partitions ? > > I found I had to do so. I couldn't get Neil's prererred layout to work. > I forget the details now, but I only managed to build a usable system > by leaving a small unformatted partition before the VFAT /boot > partition. The first partition is marked bios_grub and the second > 'boot, esp'. > > I did try later to combine the two, but I still couldn't get it to > work. Perhaps the BIOS has something odd in it.
If you are using a BIOS system, you need the compatibility partition at the start. If you are using UEFI it shouldn't be necessary. -- Neil Bothwick Tribble math: * + * = ***********************************
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