On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 20:06 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:48 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:24:37 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 06:54:02AM +0000, Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek > > > > wrote: > > > > > Making btrfs opt-in for F33 and (assuming the result go well) opt-out > > > > > for F34 > > > > > could be good option. I know technically it is already opt-in, but > > > > > it's not > > > > > very visible or popular. We could make the btrfs option more > > > > > prominent and > > > > > ask people to pick it if they are ready to handle potential fallout. > > > > > > > > I'm leaning towards recommending this as well. I feel like we don't have > > > > good data to make a decision on -- the work that Red Hat did previously > > > > when > > > > making a decision was 1) years ago and 2) server-focused, and the > > > > Facebook > > > > production usage is encouraging but also not the same use case. I'm > > > > particularly concerned about metadata corruption fragility as noted in > > > > the > > > > Usenix paper. (It'd be nice if we could do something about that!) > > > > > > So if one has a spare partition to play with btrfs, is there an easy > > > way to install a second copy of Fedora without having the /boot/efi/ > > > entries overwrite the existing Fedora installation? Or fix it to have > > > 2 separate entries after the fact? > > > > > > It's possible but has challenges. Separate ESP's you'll need to either > > (a) use the firmware's built-in boot manager to choose what will > > probably appear to be identically named Fedora's > > No, you have to rename the first one before doing the second install. > anaconda explicitly deletes any existing efibootmgr entry named > "Fedora" before creating a new one.
Any idea if this process is documented? I typically install on a laptop, with the "encrypt my data" option. I can confirm that the only way to successfully have 2 side-by-side Fedora installs with UEFI, using only Anaconda to set it up, is to have 2 separate physical disks, and choose which physical disk to boot by hitting F12 at machine power on. Any attempts to share /boot result in at least one of the installs being broken. Any attempts to share /boot/efi breaks at least fedora-by-fedora installs. Adding a separate /boot/efi partition for the second Fedora install makes the resulting system usable on the new Fedora install, but there is no obvious way to boot into the older Fedora install. If you unlock the disks within Anaconda for the existing Fedora install, grub gets boot entries for that install, but they are non-functional. (No password is prompted for unlocking the disk, indefinite hang.) What /does/ seem to work is having RHEL and Fedora side-by-side on the same disk, as long as each has its own /boot and /boot/efi partitions. Generally, I'd like the fedora-by-fedora parallel installs to work better because that's how I'm best able to participate in the Test Matrix. V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
