Re: /boot on the hidden EFI-FAT partition?

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have setup my machines with dual boot and use LVM on the GNU/Linux side,
> so I have 4 partitions: a 200MB hidden EFI/FAT partition, a 36GB MacOSX
> partition, a 200MB /boot partition, and a 36GB LVM partition.
>
> When I look at the /dev/sda1 partition, I see I can mount it and
> it's empty.  What's up with it, really.  Is it a pseudo-FAT which actually
> uses the space for other things?  Is it dangerous or not to write to it?
> Could I even use it for my /boot ?

I've used it as the boot. You have to add an addition parameter to bless to 
get the machine to boot from it.

Best Regards

Jools
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