Timeline for Multiple Linux Installation - managing shared ESP and Bootable options
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| Jan 2, 2019 at 20:46 | vote | accept | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | ||
| Jan 2, 2019 at 20:46 | comment | added | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | @Johan Myréen OpenSuse tumbleweed did that. Don't know if it's fixed now. | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 6:35 | comment | added | Johan Myréen | @SabyasachiMukherjee Which operating systems format the ESP? They are definitely not supposed to do that. You can think of the ESP as a per-disk extension of the firmware ("BIOS"). There is only one piece of firmware, and there should be only one ESP per disk (preferably only one ESP per system, imo.) | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 22:09 | comment | added | Hermann |
Most Linux installers allow choosing if and where to install the boot manager, although you may need to switch to expert mode installation for the options to be visible. I would go to /boot/efi/EFI/ and delete everything I do not want to show up at the EFI boot selection screen (I would also have a super grub 2 disk at hand). I never used Fedora, but you may need do be careful with it. They apparently need more than one file for their boot procedure as described here.
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| Jan 1, 2019 at 21:44 | history | edited | Rui F Ribeiro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 1, 2019 at 21:37 | comment | added | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | The problem is that sometimes, the installation of new OS tries to format the ESP. Could you also help me clear out the redundant EFI executables? What should I use to do that? EFIBootMgr? And thanks for the side note: I actually do have a Fedora installation in a separate 2TB HDD. That is my main system. I am actually distro-hopping on a spare 1TB HDD. Trying out the other distros and checking how things work differently. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 21:25 | history | answered | Hermann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |