[Anaconda-devel] Re: deprecate bootloader selection criterion

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On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 1:50 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 6:54 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 2:37 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 5:21 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Final_Release_Criteria#Bootloader_disk_selection
> > > >
> > > > "The installer must allow the user to choose which disk the system
> > > > bootloader will be installed to, and to choose not to install one at
> > > > all. "
> > > >
> > > > The "choose not to install one at all" doesn't really apply to UEFI. I
> > > > wonder if we can just drop the whole criterion? (I'm still hopeful
> > > > that one day the entirety of bootloader UI in the installer goes
> > > > away.)
> > > >
> > > > So what you get is a system without an EFI system partition (or an
> > > > existing ESP that isn't used), but all the bootloader stuff is put on
> > > > the /boot volume. So it's not going to boot, which makes the
> > > > installer's warnings true. The one thing *not* copied for some reason
> > > > is the stub grub.cfg. But shim, grub, the real grub.cfg, and BLS
> > > > snippets are all there - just on ext4 /boot which the firmware can't
> > > > read so the system doesn't boot. It's harmless because the user signed
> > > > up for this after all, but it's also kinda pointless.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Reproduce steps:
> > > > 1. Any that use Anaconda, from any release, but I just used this:
> > > > Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20220119.n.0.iso
> > > > 2. Boot it, launch installer
> > > > 3. Installation destination keep all defaults
> > > > 4. Click blue text at the bottom "Full disk summary and boot loader..."
> > > > 5. Select the (in my case single) drive, click the "Do not install
> > > > bootloader" button
> > > > 6. Close and install
> > > >
> > >
> > > The ability to not install the bootloader is used for creating some of
> > > the images. And it's also useful in advanced installations where
> > > people are using custom boot managers.
> >
> > Which images?
>
> Hmm, now that I look, I guess we're not doing it anymore for the ARM
> ones. But I think we'll be using that for the RISC-V ones once that
> gets brought into Fedora.

Nope, RISC-V will be handled like arm and use UEFI/grub2 so there
should be no need there either.
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