What about EFI?

Posted Oct 9, 2025 18:52 UTC (Thu) by ebee_matteo (subscriber, #165284)
Parent article: Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43

What happens for those of us that are generating UKI kernel images directly in the EFI boot partition?

I don't have a separate boot partition anymore (I use systemd-boot).

A lot of us are stuck with 512 MBs for the system EFI. I guess we need a way to move firmware out of the way or also start resizing EFI default partitions...

What about EFI?

Posted Oct 10, 2025 7:04 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (1 responses)

systemd-boot supports XBOOTLDR partition to avoid changing the EFI partition on every kernel update. I use XBOOTLDR on NixOS, a distro that defaults to systemd-boot. I'm not sure if Fedora would support it; I would stick with GRUB to boot Fedora.

What about EFI?

Posted Oct 10, 2025 22:12 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

Fedora boots fine with systemd-boot. It is available even as an option during installation when using the advanced installer.