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    From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 21 23:46:44 2017
    Kodi creates a "system" partition that has all the EFI stuff, plus
    Kodi's equivalent of a boot partition. Kodi uses a syslinux boot, but I
    found a script that works in Grub2.

    I was able to boot into Kodi (actually a version called LibreELEC) until
    I installed Fedora on the same drive. Fedora used the same EFI
    partition, and now Kodi spits the dummy.

    My question is: can I separate Kodi's boot stuff from the EFI partition.
    As I am typing this, doing that sounds just like a standard Linux
    install, with the boot partition separated. Any problems I should put
    to the Kodi developers, but their setup is so odd (the Mageia team said
    that it violated their security rules,) that I doubt if they would know
    what I am talking about. Their standard answer is: if I am not using
    Ubuntu, they don't want to know me, i.e. hand over the difficult stuff
    to people who know what they are doing. I may simply have to "suck it
    and see."

    Any ideas?

    Doug.

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    running 4.9.50-desktop-1.mga6 with DE=Xfce4

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  • From Pascal Hambourg@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 28 09:35:04 2017
    Le 21/10/2017 à 14:46, Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
    Kodi creates a "system" partition that has all the EFI stuff, plus
    Kodi's equivalent of a boot partition.  Kodi uses a syslinux boot, but I found a script that works in Grub2.

    Why did you put double quotes around "system" ?
    Is it or is it not an EFI partition ?

    I was able to boot into Kodi (actually a version called LibreELEC) until
    I installed Fedora on the same drive.  Fedora used the same EFI
    partition, and now Kodi spits the dummy.

    I do not understand "spit the dummy".

    My question is: can I separate Kodi's boot stuff from the EFI partition.

    I don't know Kodi and have not idea, but you could create and use
    separate EFI partitions for each system instead.

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