On Mon, 13 May 2019 22:47:13 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 13/05/2019 22.19, Stephen Berman wrote:
This is something I'm still unclear about. You say there is only one EFI partition per disk and you also say a separate /boot partition is neither advantageous nor needed. But IIUC the recommended location of the EFI partition is /boot/efi. So what happens in a computer with multiple systems? That would seem to require a separate /boot partition, or can symlinks be used? And what happens if you want to upgrade or even replace the system in whose /boot the EFI partition resides?
When there is no separate /boot partition, it simply a normal directory, /boot :-)
And each "/" root has a /boot.
And each /boot mounts the same efi, as /boot/efi
Ok, so no separate /boot partition, but there has to be an EFI partition, which will be mounted in each system at /boot/efi, right? Must the EFI partition be the first disk partition or can it be anywhere? Do you happen to know whether, if I start with a clean disk in an EFI-enabled machine and let the openSUSE installer propose a partition scheme, it will include the EFI partition? [...]
I disabled the UEFI CSM support in the BIOS, which IIUC means the computer is using pure EFI. I was prepared to not be able to boot either Leap or TW anymore, but in fact AFAICT nothing has changed: the GRUB2 menu appears just as before and both systems boot fine. Of course I didn't reinstall GRUB2; does that mean the systems are still booting in legacy mode even though this is disabled in BIOS -- is that even possible?
I don't know... You got me more confused.
¡Qué lástima! :-( Steve Berman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org