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

>> 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 ?

Jools Smyth <jools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I've used it as the boot. You have to add an addition parameter to bless to 
> get the machine to boot from it.

I'd like to use it with lilo or grub (i.e. old BIOS-style boot, not EFI), so
bless shouldn't be needed.

Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.

Yes and no: if it were really "well defined", then we'd know what can safely
be done with it.  Does anyone know what that partition is used for?


        Stefan


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