diff --git a/lang/english.trans b/lang/english.trans
index 7d2fbe1..e8f31bb 100644
--- a/lang/english.trans
+++ b/lang/english.trans
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ _InstSysBody="\nInstall syslinux to the master boot record (MBR) or to root (/)?
 # File System
 _FSTitle="Choose Filesystem"
 _SelRootBody="\nSelect the system root (/) partition.\n\nThis is where $DIST will be installed."
-_SelBiosBody="\nSelect the boot partition, this is only required for LUKS."
+_SelBiosBody="\nDo you want to use a separate boot partition?\n\nThis partition is where the bootloader and init will be installed.\n"
 
 _SelSwpNone="None"
 _SelSwpFile="Swapfile"
diff --git a/src/archlabs-installer b/src/archlabs-installer
index 23f1134..ec7d963 100755
--- a/src/archlabs-installer
+++ b/src/archlabs-installer
@@ -113,20 +113,6 @@ declare -A BCMDS=(
 [systemd-boot]="bootctl --path=/boot install"
 )
 
-# boot partition mount points for each bootloader
-declare -A BMNTS=(
-[BIOS-grub]="/boot"
-[UEFI-grub]="/boot/efi"
-[BIOS-syslinux]="/boot"
-[UEFI-systemd-boot]="/boot"
-)
-
-# bootloader options with respective boot partition mountpoint
-declare -A BOOTLDRS=(
-[BIOS]="grub ${BMNTS[BIOS-grub]} syslinux ${BMNTS[BIOS-syslinux]}"
-[UEFI]="systemd-boot ${BMNTS[UEFI-systemd-boot]} grub ${BMNTS[UEFI-grub]}"
-)
-
 # match the wm name with the actual session name used for xinit
 declare -A WM_SESSIONS=(
 [dwm]='dwm'
@@ -259,7 +245,7 @@ main()
 show_cfg()
 {
     local cmd="${BCMDS[$BOOTLDR]}"
-    local mnt="${BMNTS[$SYS-$BOOTLDR]}"
+    local mnt="/boot"
     local pkgs="${USER_PKGS# }"
     pkgs="${pkgs% }"
     pkgs="${pkgs% } ${PACKAGES# }"
@@ -1332,6 +1318,9 @@ select_boot_partition()
     if [[ $AUTO_BOOT_PART && $AUTO_BOOT_PART == "$BOOT_PART" ]]; then
         BOOT_PART="$AUTO_BOOT_PART"
         return 0 # were done here
+    elif [[ $LUKS && ! $LVM ]]; then
+        BOOT_PART="$(menubox "$_PrepMount" "\nSelect the boot partition (/boot), this is required for LUKS." $PARTS)"
+        [[ $BOOT_PART ]] || return 1
     else
         BOOT_PART="$(menubox "$_PrepMount" "$_SelBiosBody" "$_Skip" "-" $PARTS)"
         [[ $BOOT_PART == "" || $BOOT_PART == "$_Skip" ]] && { BOOT_PART=""; return 0; }
@@ -1368,7 +1357,6 @@ select_root_partition()
 select_extra_partitions()
 {
     local part
-
     while (( COUNT > 0 )); do
         tput civis
         part="$(menubox "$_PrepMount " "$_ExtPartBody" "$_Done" "Return to the main menu" $PARTS)"
@@ -1382,7 +1370,6 @@ select_extra_partitions()
             break; return 1
         fi
     done
-
     return 0
 }
 
@@ -1733,11 +1720,22 @@ suckless_install()
 setup_boot()
 {
     tput civis
-    BOOTLDR="$(menubox "$_PrepMount" "$_MntBootBody" ${BOOTLDRS[$SYS]})"
+    if [[ $SYS == 'BIOS' ]]; then
+        BOOTLDR="$(menubox "$_PrepMount" "$_MntBootBody" \
+            "grub" "The Grand Unified Bootloader, standard among many Linux distributions" \
+            "syslinux" "A collection of boot loaders capable of booting from drives, CDs, and over the network")"
+
+    else
+        BOOTLDR="$(menubox "$_PrepMount" "$_MntBootBody" \
+            "systemd-boot" "A simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images" \
+            "grub" "The Grand Unified Bootloader, standard among many Linux distributions")"
+
+    fi
+
     [[ $BOOTLDR ]] || return 1
 
     if [[ $BOOT_PART != "" ]]; then
-        mount_partition "$BOOT_PART" "${BMNTS[$SYS-$BOOTLDR]}" && SEP_BOOT=true || return 1
+        mount_partition "$BOOT_PART" "/boot" && SEP_BOOT=true || return 1
         setup_boot_device
     fi
 
@@ -1746,11 +1744,11 @@ setup_boot()
 
 setup_grub()
 {
-    local efidir="/sys/firmware/efi"
-
     # grub has by far the worst setup of the three however
     # the configuration is shorter due to grub-mkconfig
+
     EDIT_FILES[bootloader]="/etc/default/grub"
+
     if [[ $SYS == 'BIOS' ]]; then
         [[ $BOOT_DEVICE ]] || { select_device 'boot' || return 1; }
         BCMDS[grub]="grub-install --recheck --force --target=i386-pc $BOOT_DEVICE"
@@ -1758,10 +1756,10 @@ setup_grub()
         if [[ $ROOT_PART == */dev/mapper/* && ! $LVM && ! $LUKS_PASS ]]; then
             luks_pass "$_LuksOpen" 1 || return 1
         fi
-        BCMDS[grub]="mount -t efivarfs efivarfs $efidir/efivars || true &&
-              grub-install --recheck --force --bootloader-id=$DIST"
+        BCMDS[grub]="mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars || true &&
+              grub-install --recheck --force --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=$DIST"
 
-        grep -q $efidir/efivars <<< "$(mount)" || mount -t efivarfs efivarfs $efidir/efivars
+        grep -q /sys/firmware/efi/efivars <<< "$(mount)" || mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
     fi
 
     BCMDS[grub]="mkdir -p /run/udev /run/lvm &&
@@ -1812,19 +1810,19 @@ prerun_grub()
 prerun_systemd-boot()
 {
     # create the boot entry configs
-    mkdir -p ${MNT}${BMNTS[$SYS-systemd-boot]}/loader/entries
-    cat > ${MNT}${BMNTS[$SYS-systemd-boot]}/loader/loader.conf << EOF
+    mkdir -p ${MNT}/boot/loader/entries
+    cat > ${MNT}/boot/loader/loader.conf << EOF
 default  $DIST
 timeout  5
 editor   no
 EOF
-    cat > ${MNT}${BMNTS[$SYS-systemd-boot]}/loader/entries/${DIST}.conf << EOF
+    cat > ${MNT}/boot/loader/entries/${DIST}.conf << EOF
 title   $DIST Linux
 linux   /vmlinuz-${KERNEL}$([[ $UCODE ]] && printf "\ninitrd  %s" "/${UCODE}.img")
 initrd  /initramfs-$KERNEL.img
 options root=$ROOT_PART_ID $([[ $LUKS_DEV ]] && printf "%s " "$LUKS_DEV")rw
 EOF
-    cat > ${MNT}${BMNTS[$SYS-systemd-boot]}/loader/entries/${DIST}-fallback.conf << EOF
+    cat > ${MNT}/boot/loader/entries/${DIST}-fallback.conf << EOF
 title   $DIST Linux Fallback
 linux   /vmlinuz-${KERNEL}$([[ $UCODE ]] && printf "\ninitrd  %s" "/${UCODE}.img")
 initrd  /initramfs-$KERNEL-fallback.img
@@ -1850,10 +1848,10 @@ EOF
 
 prerun_syslinux()
 {
-    mkdir -pv $MNT${BMNTS[$SYS-syslinux]}/syslinux
-    cp -rfv $RUN/syslinux/splash.png $MNT${BMNTS[$SYS-syslinux]}/syslinux/
-    cp -rfv /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/* $MNT${BMNTS[$SYS-syslinux]}/syslinux/
-    cat > $MNT${BMNTS[$SYS-syslinux]}/syslinux/syslinux.cfg << EOF
+    mkdir -pv $MNT/boot/syslinux
+    cp -rfv $RUN/syslinux/splash.png $MNT/boot/syslinux/
+    cp -rfv /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/* $MNT/boot/syslinux/
+    cat > $MNT/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg << EOF
 UI vesamenu.c32
 MENU TITLE $DIST Boot Menu
 MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
@@ -1922,9 +1920,9 @@ install_bootloader()
     fi
 
     if [[ $SYS == 'UEFI' ]]; then
-        find ${MNT}${BMNTS[UEFI-$BOOTLDR]}/EFI/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 \
+        find $MNT/boot/EFI/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 \
             -name '[aA][rR][cC][hH][lL]abs' -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \; >/dev/null 2>&1
-        find ${MNT}${BMNTS[UEFI-$BOOTLDR]}/EFI/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 \
+        find $MNT/boot/EFI/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 \
             -name '[Bb][oO][oO][tT]' -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \; >/dev/null 2>&1
     fi
 
@@ -1938,7 +1936,7 @@ install_bootloader()
     fi
 
     prerun_$BOOTLDR
-    printf "Installing and setting up $BOOTLDR in ${BMNTS[$SYS-$BOOTLDR]}\n"
+    printf "Installing and setting up $BOOTLDR\n"
     chrun "${BCMDS[$BOOTLDR]}" 2>$ERR
     errshow 1 "${BCMDS[$BOOTLDR]}"
 
@@ -1949,10 +1947,8 @@ install_bootloader()
     fi
 
     if [[ $BOOTLDR == 'grub' && $SYS == 'UEFI' ]]; then
-        printf "Copying grub efi stub to system fallback ${BMNTS[$SYS-$BOOTLDR]}/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI\n"
-        local esp="${MNT}${BMNTS[$SYS-$BOOTLDR]}"
-        mkdir -pv $esp/EFI/BOOT
-        cp -fv $esp/EFI/$DIST/grubx64.efi $esp/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
+        mkdir -pv $MNT/boot/EFI/BOOT
+        cp -fv $MNT/boot/EFI/$DIST/grubx64.efi $MNT/boot/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
     fi
 
     return 0