What volumes should have EFI on them?

[howmanyds]

Just trying to understand the EFI system a little better.
I'm using legacy mode for booting (not sure if that makes a difference).

Should I have an EFI partition JUST on my boot drive? I'm noticing in Clover Configurator that my two drives which form a RAID set each have an EFI partition too. Are those supposed to be there? Should I delete them? I am having trouble with my boot not working 4 out of 5 times; maybe this is the culprit.

 

[trs96]

File structure - Some of the things I wish I knew before starting

This is a brief and incomplete guide to how most hackintosh builds are structured. It has been written by a novice to hackintoshing about some of the things he wish he knew before he started. It is important to note there are other ways of making a hackintosh where the following description...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[jaymonkey]

Just trying to understand the EFI system a little better.

@howmanyds,

See the above linked guide for details but in summary any drive that is formatted using a GUID partition scheme will have / should have a EFI boot partition. It's part of the basic GUID definition / standard.

In most cases this will be a physical storage device such as HDD, SSD, NVMe ..etc

Of course there is nothing to stop you creating an EFI partition using another partition scheme such as NTFS .. etc but in those cases it is not part of the defined standard.

It has nothing to do with Volumes.

Cheers
Jay