Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
This is interesting. This patch for Anaconda runs grub2-mkconfig twice when media is live + /boot is on Btrfs. https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/0fc01e834082f20896728f330faea8e0b200a159 and fixes this blocker bug: Boot fails because grub initrd entry isn't generated https://bugzilla

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:27 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 wrote: >>> Just use grubby for those? >> >> I'm not quite following the question. Grubby always gets used in any >> case. And the same Btrfs subvolu

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:27 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy >>> wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 wrote: > That is not the on

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 wrote: That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run g

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >>> That is not the only issue. >>> If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated >>> config file might cause issues w

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >> That is not the only issue. >> If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated >> config file might cause issues with the grub that is actually >> installed on disk (we

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 wrote: > That is not the only issue. > If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated > config file might cause issues with the grub that is actually > installed on disk (we do not reinstall grub on updates). On UEFI it is. -- Chri

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Well there's u-boot on ARMv7 and probably on aarch64 (uEFI is for the > server spec, not necessarily other form factors), what about those > users interested in using gummiboot instead of grub2? Gummiboot supports no file systems, only what

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015, at 03:11 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ > > It seems to have died. See also https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2014-July/msg2.html (The current status quo for OSTree is that it writes /boo

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Andrew Lutomirski said: > Please let's pick a standard (or at least Fedora standard) way to > store boot loader entries. The current system is awful. It's extra > awful when you have to reinstall or switch boot loaders for whatever > reason and all your boot entries are only li

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: >> Seems like it's easier to just ditch grubby than patch it, if it takes >> years to merge patches to provide simple functionality that other >> distro's already have then we just need to

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > Seems like it's easier to just ditch grubby than patch it, if it takes > years to merge patches to provide simple functionality that other > distro's already have then we just need to drop it and go with some > other solution. Thanks, Linux

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:58 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: >>> Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 >>> stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.03.2015 um 18:58 schrieb drago01: That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated config file might cause issues with the grub that is actually installed on disk (we do not reinstall grub on updates) and you can't update grub that easy in

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: >> Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 >> stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and >> lets us use btrfs for /boot. Then as new featu

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: >> Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 >> stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and >> lets us use btrfs for /boot. Then as new featu

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 > stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and > lets us use btrfs for /boot. Then as new features are added to grub2 > for btrfs we don't have to worry a

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> >> What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE >>> >> supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. >>> >> >>> >> This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 >>> >> months, which have

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Peter Robinson
>> >> What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE >> >> supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. >> >> >> >> This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 >> >> months, which have been tested and work >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Mar 20, 2015 8:15 AM, "Peter Robinson" wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > >> > >> What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE > >> supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. >

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: >> >> What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE >> supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. >> >> This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the probl

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE > supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. > > This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 > months, which have been tested and work > https:/

/boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 months, which have been tested and work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864198 The short versio