Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

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On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 7:06 PM, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote:
> Well... I will try to repeat more clearly my claim:
> 
> If Fedora want to pretend to implement the Boot Loader Specification, 
> it must, on a new disk formatted in GPT, end up with an entry in fstab 
> for an ESP partition mounted on /boot:
> 
> "These directories are defined below the placeholder file system $BOOT. 
> This placeholder file system shall be determined during installation 
> time, and an fstab entry for it shall be created mounting it to /boot."
> 
> ...
> 
> "if the OS is installed on a disk with GPT disk label, and no ESP 
> partition exists yet, a new suitably sized (let's say 500MB) ESP should 
> be created and should be used as $BOOT"
> 
> This is the rule you are supposed end up to follow for an empty GPT partition.
> 
> And for now, the installer seems to make you define a specific 
> /boot/efi that it make ESP. To follow BLS, it should be /boot that is 
> the ESP partition... and I see no point to define an other /boot/efi 
> partition to be mounted on /boot.
> 

I agree with your assessment and am also confused about the discrepancy between BLS documentation and Fedora's implementation.


V/r,
James Cassell

> ...
> 
> "`$BOOT` must be a VFAT (16 or 32) file system. Other file system types 
> should not be used. Applications accessing `$BOOT` should hence not 
> assume that fancier file system features such as symlinks, hardlinks, 
> access control or case sensitivity are supported."
> 
> 
> 
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