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

Hello,

I am very new in this matter
(I have just set my intel mini mac (dual core)),
but so far I can understand,
for an EFI machine, the first partition seems
to have a very well defined role:
so may be it is not that safe to do
something unexpected with it.

Jerome


Jools Smyth wrote:
> 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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