noauto option ignored in /etc/fstab?

[Tom H]

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 December 2017 at 17:45, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>
>> EFI firmware can also boot in legacy mode.
>
> Yes, I know, or so I have read. I have no EFI machines except my Mac
> and I do not run Linux on that.
>
> But AIUI, you still need an EFI system partition on the 1st hard disk
> to boot a machine which has EFI.

Are you sure? What would be the difference between "regular mode" and
legacy mode?

If your disk is gpt-formatted, you need a bios_boot partition (gdisk
name; parted calls is bios_grub).