Hello Mike!

20 Oct 16, Mike Powell wrote to Kai Richter:

 >> Just ignore comments that were done without knowledge about your
 >> system configuration. There are good reasons for seperate /boot
 >> partitions. Some older BIOS based machines can't boot too big
 >> harddisks without it.

 MP> Thank you for reminding me why I used to do that on my systems.  :)  I
 MP> had forgotten, and have not had to do it on my more modern machines.

Hm, well, you should be prepared for its return on real modern machines. ;)

As far as i remember EFI boot is done via EFI System Partition (ESP), which is
FAT style by UEFI standard.

I played with it some time ago, when a 4TB HDD was available for testing. I
ended up with ESP, boot, NTFS and ext4 partitions on the disk, together with
grub for bootmenu.

It should be possible to merge ESP and boot partitions into one. But i failed
to do so, maybe i got the wrong config parameter for grub.

Later

Kai

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