On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:47 AM Gregory Bartholomew <gregory.lee.bartholo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:39 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Fedora Server users *must* fully reinstall, because there's no way to >> make space for an ESP and reconfigure things. > > > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation in a long time, so I'm > not sure how they are laid out. But I seem to remember /boot being a separate > partition for a long time (it used to be required because some older BOISs > couldn't read beyond a certain sector on the disk). Could not /boot be > converted to the ESP (i.e. reformatted with FAT32) on such systems?
No. It would need to be reformatted as FAT to be firmware readable. And thus this is an irreversible modification. There will be lengthy periods of time that are simply not crash safe. So the risk is probably unacceptably high that the user ends up abandoned on a deserted island, in which case it's better to just steer them toward the well understood and document process of reprovisioning (clean install time). Yes it's tedious, but it's well understood and very reliable, and that counts for more than convenience in QA terms. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
