On 11 April 2018 at 23:02, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

| From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| These days it
| seems you want a /boot partition though - but I'm not the one to explain
| the ins and outs of that.

I've not seen a use for a /boot partition.

With UEFI booting, you need a separate EFI System Partition. This
will be shared by all systems that boot off that drive. This gets
mounted on the mount point /boot/efi. It will be some variant of FAT
but the partition type will be distinct.

To correct my own post based on what Hugh said ... I was both right and horribly wrong about that. I was entirely correct "I'm not the one to explain [this]." And horribly wrong: what you usually want is what Hugh said: an EFI System Partition. I'd conflated that with a /boot/ partition because it appears there. My apologies.

Giles
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