On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:01:57 -0400 Matthew dyer via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi > partition for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition > the same as say a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I > need to have an extra partition for a boot partition or is this efi > partition used as the boot partition. I did not see anything > regarding this in the wiki so thought I would ask here. > ESP (EFI system partition) is needed to EFI firmware to load bootloader from it. In BIOS boot MBR provides the same function - store bootloader code. ESP is more convient in that regard since it's a FAT32 filesystem instead of a binary blob.
