Re: Disk Structures

From: Liam Proven <liam.proven_at_sitpub.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:25:19 UTC
On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 at 06:07, Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>
> If that system uses EFI to boot, those partitions need to exist as they
> contain the EFI bootloader.
>
> Is that the case for your machines?

It is a Raspberry Pi. It is an ARM computer, not an x86 PC. The Pi
does not use EFI; it does not use a bootloader at all. The system is
controlled by the VideoCore GPU which runs the Microsoft ThreadX RTOS
and after that boots, the GPU loads the Arm OS from a FAT32 partition
then starts the Arm and passes it the OS image as a payload.

> efibootmgr shows you that in case you booted in EFI mode.

No, not on a Pi.

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