On 30/12/2016 19:46, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/30/2016 02:19 AM, Mayavimmer wrote: >> Is it safe? > > If your system boots, then probably, yes. > Actually, I just found out that might not be the case. Out of five F25 installs I tried on one machine today, the ones without separate /boot destroyed all the others! This looks like a bug. I'll investigate when I can. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in another post, each install takes at least 40 minutes before it can get going due to the fsck's. The /boot weirdness mingles with the general weirdness of multiple installs with the same name -- fedora in this case, though mint/ubuntu was doing it too. I wish devs would be extra careful and regular with boot related problems, no funny stuff, considering the huge costs of dealing with them compared to regular apps. >> If so, why does the Fedora installer propose a separate >> /boot in this EFI hardware case with GPT partitioning? > > The kernel and initrd need to be in a place that GRUB2 can read them. > Anaconda can build up a lot of different storage stacks, and it's > simpler and more reliable to default to putting the kernel and initrd on > their own partition. It's more likely to produce a working system, and > beyond that, it's a lot easier to work with if you need to do any kind > of repair/recovery. > >> Are there >> advantages/disadvantages? Skipping the creation of a separate /boot >> seems very convenient since a new install under LVM would only require >> one new physical partition > > Well, two, at least. You need your EFI partition and your LVM > partition, at a minimum. I beg to differ on both counts, the simplicity thing and the two partition minimum thing. Most EFI Linux installs happen on machines that already have a Windows EFI partition, along with another 3-4 maintenance ones, not to mention other possible Linuces. Therefore each new install could in the most common case involve only one new partition. Also with a large number of partitions it is often conceptually and practically simpler to reduce new partitions to one for each os. For example today I installed Fedoras and Mints on two machines: a laptop with 9 partitions and 6 os'es, and a server with 34 partitions and 5 os's. And I am not done yet. You see why it is often better to deal with the simple equation: 1 os = 1 partition? Especially now that we have powerful container like technologies like LVM and Btrfs. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
