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maddoc74

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Registered: 2015-06-22

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Should my EFI partition be inside an LVM?

I'm having so so many problems booting EFI, because when I was initially partitioning my system, I created two partions: one for /boot, formatted fat32 and one for lvm. LVM has root and home partitions inside it. I finally hacked up my EFI boot, and now I'm getting kernel panics all over the place. I think I'm going to start fresh, but I need to know if I should put /boot inside the LVM this time.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Should my EFI partition be inside an LVM?

No.

The EFI system partition can only be read if it is FAT formatted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_partition

https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/2 … work-then/

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maddoc74

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Registered: 2015-06-22

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Re: Should my EFI partition be inside an LVM?

You can format the partition as FAT inside the LVM, no?

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Re: Should my EFI partition be inside an LVM?

LVM is a format specific to Linux, EFI has to be a GPT partition.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Should my EFI partition be inside an LVM?

EFI has to be a GPT partition.

↑ This.

The motherboard identifies the ESP by the GUID partition code ("EF00")

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