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   Carlos E.R. to bad sector   
   Re: EFI/UEFI position on disk or other m   
   08 Feb 24 13:57:27   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-02-07 23:05, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 2/7/24 15:37, Marco Moock wrote:   
   >> On 07.02.2024 um 07:53 Uhr bad sector wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Can it be anywhere on the disk or is there an imperative for it to be   
   >>> at the bottom/beginning?   
   >>   
   >> Please describe more precisely what you mean.   
   >> The EFI system partition can be anywhere.   
   >   
   > I want to slice my laptop ssd so that grub will not list any partition   
   > 10 or 11 before 2.   
      
   Grub will list ALL OSES no matter where you put them in the disk or   
   where you place the ESP partition (that's its proper name).   
      
   Actually, it is a script. This is done by os-prober. Just edit the big   
   script to make it do whatever you want. Easy peasy.   
      
   :-P   
      
   > If I can put EFI anywhere then I can use 1-9 for   
   > OS'es and place all the others above. Otherwise (and I just did this but   
   > can easily back out) I start OS partitions with 11 with the also-rans   
   > 1-10 (like EFI, swap, some datas).   
   >   
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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