On 2022-04-18 18:25, Ian Pilcher wrote:
... Basically, I suggest that Fedora stop worrying about BIOS boot or other "weird" boot configurations. Instead, provide a truly manual installation path where all boot and storage configuration is the responsibility of the user. ...
I am using Fedora in the way very close to your suggestion, except the installer part. Since I am producing bunch of os instances of all types regularly (for me and my users), many years ago, I replaced Anaconda/kickstarts with ansible inventory per site (pure-man CMDB) abusing the ansible groups inheritance as tool for quick instance description. On top of these inventory calculations I have few stupid playbooks: * efi/legacy-pxeboot, lio-iscsi lease: optional, needed when the machine being installed is physical and blank (no ssh) * disk-layout: gpt (sfdisk), mdraids, lvm groups/pools/volumes (direct commands, build in ansible modules are incomplete), mkfs/mkswap invocations. * base fedora-image: systemd-nspawn+dnf (package list as sum of the classes in which the instance belongs), systemd.mount/swap/netdev/network, locale, etc. * efi-boot/bios-boot (extlinux/pxelinux based in both cases): initial copy of the kernal/initramfs, extlinux --install, initial extlinux.conf - it is simple. Then with the live (ssh accessible) freshly baked image - the usual ansible setup (subsystems, users, user profiles), according the instance purpose. When the new instance is a "upgrade", merge and restore configuration overlay from previous system using fossil VCS at /. On kernel updates, stupid python script in /etc/kernel/install.d/ for keeping extlinux.conf in sync. Nowadays the extlinux.conf script is superfluous - extlinux config could be generated on the fly form systemd's /boot/loader/entries/ with a Lua script (syslinux have Lua module), but I don't have written it yet. So, not much drama, for the sites with a some techy guy around, there is no shortage of variants (for both legacies support and efficient setup methods). The really hard problem which Anaconda is supposed to solve, are the new, non-tech users - somewhere in the Internet, alone, guided by incomplete/wrong recipes, found on a random forum/blog by google :-). Kind regards, Alek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
