On 12/06/2014 08:32 AM, Ted Miller wrote: > 2. I cannot comment from experience about the separate drive for > /boot/efi, but needing a separate partition surprises me. I have not > read about others needing that. I would think that having an > accessible /boot partition would suffice. Systems that boot with UEFI instead of BIOS require separate partitions for /boot and /boot/efi. UEFI must boot from a FAT32 filesystem. That filesystem will include the UEFI shim that's signed by Verisign for trusted boot, a version of GRUB2 that's signed by Red Hat (IIRC), and the GRUB2 configuration file. The /boot filesystem will contain the same thing on UEFI that it does under BIOS, namely the kernel and initrd.