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Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

From Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?
Date 2020-05-13 21:10 +0200
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Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 07:38:00 +0200 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

>> Also Firmware/BIOS update are often put onto there nowadays to be
>> installed on next reboot.

> Aren't such updates stored still in /boot?  Or has that changed with
> efi?

For my Dell Precision 7520 I can either put them on a USB-key and
manually initiate the upgrade during boot (how barbaric) or put the
update file on the ESP and have it done automatically.

fwupd also does it this way.

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 00:30 +0200
  Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2020-05-13 00:40 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-13 02:40 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-05-13 07:40 +0200
        Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:40 +0200
          Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-05-13 21:10 +0200
          Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-13 21:20 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2020-05-13 09:20 +0200
        Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:40 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:40 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-05-13 13:50 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-05-14 18:30 +0200
        Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-14 21:00 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:30 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-14 04:20 +0200
  Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-05-13 14:40 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:20 +0200

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