Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2025-01-06 Thread Vojtech Trefny
I have changed the title to "Anaconda Installer Using GPT on all architectures by Default" and updated the description as well. I'll be happy to work with Neil to extend the scope to image creation as well, but my original idea was to cover only the installer defaults the same way the F37 change di

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 05:44:02AM -0700, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 2:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 07:59:28PM +0100, Simon de Vlieger wrote: > > > On 12/12/24 5:04 PM, Vojtech Trefny wrote: > > > > The default we have in blivet actual

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-21 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 2:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 07:59:28PM +0100, Simon de Vlieger wrote: > > On 12/12/24 5:04 PM, Vojtech Trefny wrote: > > > The default we have in blivet actually applies only to systems > > > installed with Anaconda so this would n

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 07:59:28PM +0100, Simon de Vlieger wrote: > On 12/12/24 5:04 PM, Vojtech Trefny wrote: > > The default we have in blivet actually applies only to systems > > installed with Anaconda so this would not be true for many ARM > > systems. The images used with arm-image-installer

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Vojtech Trefny
Support for discoverable partitions was added in Fedora 40: https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html#discoverable-gpt-partitions On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 8:22 PM Simon de Vlieger wrote: > > Would it make sense to also change to the use of DDI [1] partition types > in

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Simon de Vlieger
On 12/12/24 5:04 PM, Vojtech Trefny wrote: The default we have in blivet actually applies only to systems installed with Anaconda so this would not be true for many ARM systems. The images used with arm-image-installer are different. While it is mentioned under scope the title of the change pro

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Simon de Vlieger
Would it make sense to also change to the use of DDI [1] partition types in these GPT tables if we're about to go through them? [1]: https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/ Regards, Simon -- ___ devel mail

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Simon de Vlieger
On 12/12/24 6:32 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: A hybrid GPT+MBR environment could fix this, couldn't it? In general, I would prefer to use GPT everywhere, and I know there are compatibility schemes for supporting MBR "stuff" with GPT. A hybrid MBR+GPT would fix this and would be necessary to boot (for

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > We can technically do this, but it will cut off a bunch of ARM boards. > > In particular, we discovered that Raspberry Pis had problems with > > pure-GPT[1], so I forced pure MBR for now[2] while we figure out if > > there's eve

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > We can technically do this, but it will cut off a bunch of ARM boards. > In particular, we discovered that Raspberry Pis had problems with > pure-GPT[1], so I forced pure MBR for now[2] while we figure out if > there's even a reasonable path to GPT for ARM images. The raspberry pi firmwar

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Vojtech Trefny
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 4:32 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce > said: > > Because GPT was already the default > > for ARM64 > > FYI this doesn't appear to be the case - I have a fresh install of > Fedora 41 on a Raspberry Pi 4B, using arm-image-install

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:25 AM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce > said: > > Because GPT was already the default > > for ARM64 > > FYI this doesn't appear to be the case - I have a fresh install of > Fedora 41 on a Raspberry Pi 4B, using arm-image-instal

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce said: > Because GPT was already the default > for ARM64 FYI this doesn't appear to be the case - I have a fresh install of Fedora 41 on a Raspberry Pi 4B, using arm-image-installer to write the server image to a microSD card, and it got MSDOS.

F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

2024-12-12 Thread Aoife Moloney via devel-announce
Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GPTforAllByDefault Discussion Thread - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-install-using-gpt-on-all-architectures-by-default-system-wide/139538 This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. This document represents a proposed