From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3337313877A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 02:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53E16E09CB; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 02:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f180.google.com (mail-pd0-f180.google.com [209.85.192.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 084D2E09B2 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 02:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f180.google.com with SMTP id p10so14860319pdj.25 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:44:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=o7LjUi63c2gTor20sHudkTd/YZhMwlhJrgwrfwyHpq4=; b=lYiYmg4uHirjiA8ObU3DWAUqNzUYVrqMrwgSKQZHJfFPfwp/3iL2ll5VJwYqWMDpxH HFZoDcTM1PYU0BZITTr/kUH4Rg03KC93CfF8dF+PFpwWlXJHtVYDa7LvLPclYi8K4uKL Cnm0RFkASD/cMsf7rVfigGpZV2hYp2sioqYHNZnMcsHvPy177wpjf1jniXzV/M175RWR 7bh9o1l8PBJuWEhisrTdRk0STh0Qkemrf9jlN6Tum7ire6T+PA93MZDStvTpmhHDpX6B NDTt5luFqGEb2dn8zkz5em5OFnWZT4OTf5bFXPJW4J2AyqgNlFttvnaW8Q/GvLe8Neqp FknA== X-Received: by 10.70.50.69 with SMTP id a5mr15901078pdo.159.1409885045952; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (76-10-185-200.dsl.teksavvy.com. [76.10.185.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r2sm450841pdj.29.2014.09.04.19.44.05 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54092374.1080901@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:44:04 -0700 From: Daniel Frey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions References: <20140904043032.GD7483@syscon7> <20140904082528.5cd26f81@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140904130528.GF7483@syscon7> <20140904142919.19d00271@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5408C5FD.4060004@alstadheim.priv.no> In-Reply-To: <5408C5FD.4060004@alstadheim.priv.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: e4b49cd0-493c-433d-8f31-834cd5f83196 X-Archives-Hash: ed158cb46ad3a86a1f654a3d3fc35a09 On 09/04/2014 01:05 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that >>> actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room >>> for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so that will be larger. >> > I'm working on getting a new motherboard, Will I still be able to have > my boot filesystem on a flash-stick? Currently I have everything except > /boot on LVM on top of Physical Volumes on unpartitioned raid volumes. > Having a single drive with an odd size makes swapping drives around when > they fail and drop out of the raid a hassle, and I do not want to waste > 2G on every drive just to have a 2G boot partition. A flash stick (and > another one for backup) is very pleasant to work with. Especially when i > bork my initramfs or need to run maintenance without mounting my root > filesystem. Will this work on an EFI board ? > > It should work with no issues. You may want to boot it in EFI mode as some motherboards cripple functionality in 'legacy' mode. I just ran into that with hdmi audio passthrough not working on an Intel NUC I recently set up. It is possible to boot in EFI mode off of a USB, as I used a Mint ISO to boot from in EFI mode. I would presume the USB needs to have the FAT partition that EFI requires. Dan