Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
by tremon on Thursday April 21, 2022 @09:17AM
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I can have 2 independent EFI boot partitions and use the computer's boot menu too choose which to boot from.
You don't need 2 EFI boot partitions for this -- you can have multiple boot loaders in the same EFI partition, each with its own entry in the boot menu. In fact, this is how I boot: the default entry boots the linux kernel directly from the EFI partition (some UEFI implementations require the kernel to have a .efi extension, others don't), and I have separate fallback entries for refind and shellx64 in case I need to boot with different kernel parameters.
You don't need 2 EFI boot partitions for this -- you can have multiple boot loaders in the same EFI partition, each with its own entry in the boot menu. In fact, this is how I boot: the default entry boots the linux kernel directly from the EFI partition (some UEFI implementations require the kernel to have a .efi extension, others don't), and I have separate fallback entries for refind and shellx64 in case I need to boot with different kernel parameters.