Greetings,
I wanted to know if the first partition has to be FAT32 and should be mounted at /efi . Gentoo and Arch tell us to always have first partition of type FAT32 however they mount it in different location. I am confused can anyone elaborate please?
The efi partition can generally be mounted anywhere, distros may expect it in a specific location.
The efi partition must be fat formatted.
I’m not sure if partition order matters, I think the main thing is setting the boot flag for the efi partition in the partition table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition