On 13/05/2019 22.19, Stephen Berman wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2019 12:03:14 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 13/05/2019 01.14, Stephen Berman wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2019 23:15:33 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote: [...]
(the proper filesystem for /boot, if it exists, is ext2).
I seem to recall that advice from older installations; is it still considered valid?
Sure.
Reasoning is that on such a small partition (250 MB?) it is a waste to use space on a journal; and anyway, being small fsck goes fast if needed, even without a journal.
But if you do want a journal, go for ext4.
I do not understand why the install would want a separate /boot.
The EFI partition is formatted as vfat, and is mounted inside /boot. There is only one per disk. It is however very strange to have Leap using bios mode and TW using EFI mode.
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
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Well, EFI was designed from the start to support booting several different operating systems, while legacy uses hacks. There is an "EFI" menu that allows you to choose what to boot each time.
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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE, Leap 15.1 x86_64 (ssd-test)) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org