On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 02:21:04PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Peter Boy pboy@uni-bremen.de said:
I want to reiterate, it's not just about cloud platforms! if we remove BIOS boot (too early), we also kick Fedora servers, installed on hardware, out of these data centers. And the reason is not that this server hardware does not support UEFI, but the management infrastructure of the data centers.
Speaking of servers... one thing I noticed is that a pure-Fedora system only uses about 8M of /boot/efi. Even my dual-boot laptop with Win10 is only using 35M. Is there a reason 256M was chosen for the default UEFI system partition size (from the standard somewhere)? I guess that's what Windows does too (since Win10 was on this laptop first).
Windows wants >= 100 MB, or >= 256 MB on 4k-sector drives. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/config...) Whoever creates the partition should make it "large enough", i.e. it's reasonable to make it large enough to satisfy also windows, even if we only use a few MBs.
Zbyszek