Gregory Bartholomew <gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com> writes:
But I seem to remember /boot being a separate partition for a long
time (it used to be required because some older BOISs couldn't read
beyond a certain sector on the disk). Could not /boot be converted to
the ESP (i.e. reformatted with FAT32) on such systems?
Only if there's somewhere else for /boot to reside. If e.g., / is
encrypted, we're not prepared out of the box to handle that. A
determined user could probably make it work, but it's again niche.
Be well,
--Robbie