From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 22:02:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5478b9d7-81c3-8799-47e6-f7bea85f1ee5@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200405135252.2aa7401d@digimed.co.uk>
On 05/04/2020 13:52, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> This isn't strictly true, the ESP must be vfat, but you can still have an
> ext? /boot.
This isn't true at all - you've got the cart before the horse. The
original (U)EFI spec comes from Sun, I believe, with no vfat in sight.
A standards-compliant factory-fresh Mac boots using UEFI with no vfat in
sight.
A standards-compliant UEFI firmware MUST BE CAPABLE of booting from (a
certain version of) vfat. So if you use a vfat partition the spec says
it must work. It doesn't demand you use vfat, so Macs use HFS+ or
whatever it is, and there is no reason why eg System7 couldn't write
their own firmware to use ext2 or whatever.
Cheers,
Wol
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-04 17:34 [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc? tuxic
2020-04-04 17:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-04 18:03 ` tuxic
2020-04-05 17:41 ` Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-05 19:53 ` Jack
2020-04-05 19:57 ` Jack
2020-04-04 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-04 23:46 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-04 18:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 18:23 ` tuxic
2020-04-04 18:57 ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 18:33 ` Dale
2020-04-04 21:42 ` John Covici
2020-04-04 22:24 ` Dale
2020-04-04 18:25 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-04 19:05 ` tuxic
2020-04-04 19:29 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-04 19:30 ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 19:59 ` tuxic
2020-04-05 9:21 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2020-04-05 9:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-04 21:56 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-05 8:17 ` tuxic
2020-04-05 9:28 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 12:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-05 12:56 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 13:37 ` Michael
2020-04-05 14:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-05 18:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-05 19:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 10:17 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-06 21:02 ` antlists [this message]
2020-04-06 21:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 23:38 ` Michael
2020-04-07 15:23 ` antlists
2020-04-11 15:37 ` Marc Joliet
2020-04-08 1:02 ` William Kenworthy
2020-04-05 9:46 ` Michael
2020-04-05 10:52 ` tuxic
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