On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:57:28 +0200 Martin Kolman <mkolman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 4:58 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Last week, Dan Horak notified the Cloud WG that we accidentally broke > > ppc64le images[1] with our Hybrid BIOS+UEFI on GPT setup[2] because > > now there's no PReP partition being made for POWER images. > > > > He suggested in the ticket that it might be worth asking if we could > > have the reqpart command extended to do BIOS+UEFI setup when on GPT. > > If not by default, perhaps adding a flag to do it? > > > What's would be the difference from the current behavior ? my idea would be adding a "--hybrid" option to "reqpart" that would create both "BIOS" + "EFI" partitions on x86 systems. For remaining systems I believe they use only a single boot partition kind, so nothing will change there. This way you could create a "works everywhere" image the easiest way. Dan > The docs[0] say about x86 GPT: > > "Automatically create partitions required by your hardware platform. These > include a /boot/efi for x86_64 and Aarch64 systems with UEFI firmware, > biosboot for x86_64 systems with BIOS firmware and GPT, and PRePBoot for > IBM Power Systems." > > So it would create biosboot and UEFI partitions at the same time (possibly > after a flag being passed) ? Also, does this also impact autopart - should > it provide similar functionality ? > > In any case, as this is a but over my head, I'm adding Vendy a Vojta to > chime in on the storage stuff and Javier to possibly comment on the > bootloader related aspects. > > [0] https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#reqpart > > > > > > This would make it a lot easier for me to get this working across > > architectures with Fedora Cloud and would probably be beneficial for > > RHEL 9+ as well. > > > > What do y'all think? > > > > Thanks in advance and best regards, > > Neal > > > > [1]: https://pagure.io/cloud-sig/issue/346 > > [2]: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/blob/ec56783946dcd3c81ab55f33a8df8d30cd38355b/f/fedora-cloud-base.ks#_39-47 > > > > -- > > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
