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[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use NixOS, and read my comment again. /boot/efi is only for GRUB. /boot is where the actual kernels reside, and it isn't on the EFI partition.

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Might actually be systemd-boot thing, not a NixOS specific thing, either way, this is where my kernels are:

/boot/EFI/nixos/vnmrdbd7a5rg6482d6p8zxc57xf2nxqb-linux-6.1.44-bzImage.efi

/boot is straight up the EFI partition, there is no separate /boot partition.

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah that's probably because systemd-boot only supports FAT

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I doubt it doesn't support FAT16