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(a)srcf.ucam.org>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.
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