Difference between revisions of "UEFI - Install Guide"

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1.) You would need to create an ''ESP (EFI System Partition)''.
1) You would need to create an ''ESP (EFI System Partition)''.


Its basically a fat32 partition which has the .efi files for booting.
It is a FAT32 partition which has the .efi files for booting, which you can create using Gparted or gdisk. (Size 200-512 MiB).
 
You can create the partition using Gparted (type- fat32 or fat16 and size around 512 mb).


You would also need to install/check whether following packages are present-
You would also need to install/check whether following packages are present-
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2.) Create the ''/boot/efi'' directory
2) Create the ''/boot/efi'' directory
  sudo mkdir /boot/efi
  sudo mkdir /boot/efi


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