The change record for this states that we are not following the BLS at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ but the proposed update at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ .
It is not clear however if everyone has moved to the new spec or whether they are now competing specs.
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 00:27, James Cassell <fedoraproject@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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