On 06/21/2018 09:41 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> From my perspective (Fedora CoreOS developer) that straddles >> both physical and cloud for the server case, the problem is that >> the virtualized case, and in particular public cloud, and really >> specifically EC2 - no one really cares about EFI to boot their VMs. > Indeed. And it sucks. > >>> Device Start End Sectors Size Type >>> /dev/sda1 2048 10239 8192 4M BIOS boot >>> /dev/sda2 10240 1058815 1048576 512M EFI System >> I wouldn't *oppose* that; in fact if you (or someone else) >> wanted to push for that with e.g. Fedora CoreOS, I'd be happy >> to discuss it. But it's not like it has a truly compelling advantage >> over what we ship today - it'd just be *another* weird variant >> of things in the end right? > Well, as *additional* variant it doesn't provide that much value. More > interesting would be to create all x86 cloud images that way, so they > boot just fine on both bios and efi, and we don't have to bother > creating two image variants. I've been manually partitioning physical machines that I install Fedora on for exactly this reason. Similar to moving to VMs, it is especially useful when you need to replace hardware (where the new hardware uses a different firmware), as you can just put the drives in the new machine. Under the current automatic partitioning, a switch from BIOS to EFI requires repartitioning (both changing partition table type *and* partition sizes to make room for ESP), which may even be "impossible" if the system is on XFS. I would greatly appreciate a move to a uniform GPT+EF02+EF00 partitioning default with a shared boot loader config. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/K4G7HVPH7AP35DSVDHLS5XFTAYJ654ZP/
