From:    fsmithred via Dng <dng@???>

Date:    Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:20:34 -0400

> I like to make a small partition in front of the esp for a bios grub
> partition in case I ever want or need to boot the gpt disk in legacy
> mode instead of uefi.

Thanks.

> It needs to be at least 1 MB ...

According to a specification? I didn't find it.
https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/05_GUID_Partition_Table_Format.html#gpt-and-mbr-disk-layout-comparison

> ... and not have a filesystem on it. I generally give it 2 MB.
> Partition type is ef02 in gdisk.

OK, thanks,                 ... P.

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