• Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re only partially correct. /boot doesn’t have to also be your EFI partition. In fact, most distros by default will separate the two, with the EFI partition mounted at /boot/efi and /boot being a separate ext4 based partition. My suggestion is that, if you’re running BTRFS, you should merge /boot and / as one partition. You’re still free to have a FAT32-based EFI mounted at /boot/efi or better yet /efi.

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      1 year ago

      I use systemd-boot and my mount point is /efi. /efi/EFI/ is where my bootloaders live.

      If I rollback to an old enough snapshot, I have to reinstall my kernels from a chroot. It’d be cool if I could get around that.

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      1 year ago

      It has been a while since I used grub that I forgot tgat esp could only be used to hold the boot files residing on /boot/efi.

      • Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I am guessing you’re on systemd-boot? Yeah, one of the reasons why I hesitate to use it is how it requires EFI contain the kernel images. I am currently using refind.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I’m on systemd-boot, it requires the kernel to be located in the ESP partition which I mount in /boot, resulting in cleaner setup.