Underlying DE for the Workstation product

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 2 20:00:07 UTC 2014


On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 08:55:10PM +0100, drago01 wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi, I'm somewhat of a UEFI newbie; could you elaborate a little why
>> > non-FAT is required [...]
>>
>> Because Apple does not use FAT for UEFI partitons (they are HFS+).
>
> Apple provide an HFS+ driver in their firmware, so gummiboot can (in
> that specific case) boot off HFS+. But we still leave the kernel on an
> ext4 partition on Apples.

Oh OK.


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