Can't boot notebook from SSD

[Liam Proven]

On 3 May 2017 at 14:44, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> Looks like you're right, Liam.  I honestly thought it was okay to have a
> small EFI partition, so long as you (generically) weren't getting it mixed
> up with a /boot partition.  But Teh Docs say otherwise:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace
>
> That being said, it's my impression that if you're loading your kernel (as
> the OP seems to be), you're already past the EFI part of the boot process.


Some of what were NVRAM settings in BIOSes are held in files in that
partition in EFI systems.

This means that if they are wiped, you can brick your system.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=UEFI-rm-root-directory

Ergo, there must be enough space to _write_ to those files, or it won't boot.

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