On Thu, 15.05.14 18:09, Matthew Garrett (mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:07:15PM +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > We can, but the spec requires that it be VFAT, and it's not reasonable > > > for us to make /boot VFAT (no selinux labelling, for instance). > > > > > > > I guess this is so more minimal bootloaders could read it? > > Another partition is not something I'd want either. What are the downsides > > of > > putting those files on the ESP, besides it not being a standard practice for > > other OS providers? > > It may not be big enough. Remember, it's a shared resource - if you use > the ESP as $BOOT and you have multiple operating systems, they'll all > install their kernels there. Whoch the boot loader spec actually covers. It suggest adding a second partition for the kernels, with GPT type id bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
