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On 02/04/2014 06:18 PM, Chris Murphy
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And then we can definitely justify making them bigger. 550MB, or even 1GB. It's neutral to plus for performance for either HDDs or SSDs (faux short stroked in the former, and overprovisioned for the latter). Does anyone know why the convention is to create the ESP as the first partition?At times in the past there was a race between BIOS support for large disks and hard disk size, and BIOS boot code could not reach the far sectors of the disk. This even leaked into Linux sometimes, IIRC: LILO would use BIOS calls to load the kernel, and it would work on the original install because kernel was dropped on disk early on and end up in the low sectors, but would fail on kernel upgrade when the kernel blocks would end up in the filesystem areas beyond the BIOS reach. |
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