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Bug 1303219
Summary: | The installer forces users to create PReP Boot partition even when it is not always required | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | rmarshall |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Dan Horák <dan> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | al.dunsmuir, anaconda-maint-list, awilliam, bugproxy, dan, g.kaviyarasu, hannsj_uhl, jonathan, mbanas, menantea, mkolman, mkumatag, normand, ovasik, release-test-team, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Tracking |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | ppc64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | 1172791 | Environment: | |
Last Closed: | 2019-12-12 16:18:23 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Embargoed: | |||
Bug Depends On: | 1723425 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1071880, 1051573, 1172791 |
Comment 1
Jan Kurik
2016-02-24 14:22:00 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 24 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 2 (two) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 24. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '24'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 24 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fixing the assignee. moving here from https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/issues/1483 POWER/OpenPOWER machines running the OPAL firmware create a new class of "powerpc" hardware that doesn't need the PReP partition as it uses petitboot as the bootloader. Petitboot reads bootloader configs (eg. grub.conf) from the disks directly. Both physical HW and qemu/KVM virtual machines (work in progress) can be PowerNV. The advantages are more flexible storage layout and being closer to x86. After looking into the anaconda code, it looks feasible to implement the PowerNV support (touching platform.py and bootloader.py. Might need a little patch in blivet/arch.py too. I have few bits ready, but nothing complete yet. I might have it ready, consisting of 2 part - blivet [1] and anaconda [2]. I've done some basic testing, it seems to work, but proper testing requires a spare bare-metal Power machine. Full PowerNV support in qemu is still in development [3] which limits the ease of the testing. [1] https://github.com/sharkcz/blivet/tree/powernv [2] https://github.com/sharkcz/anaconda/tree/powernv [3] https://github.com/legoater/qemu/tree/powernv-4.1 test results seem to be OK, converting to PRs - https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet/pull/782 - https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/2025 In addition to these we need to loosen the grub-install requirement for the bootloader partition, or rather not do install any grub binaries on PowerNV. So, both those PRs are merged now. What's the status of the "In addition" work? (In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #7) > So, both those PRs are merged now. What's the status of the "In addition" > work? In progress, but we can track it as optimization in a new bug. My experiment shows, that the actual bootloader binaries are really not required, but we need grubby plus its dependencies (grub2-{common,tools}) to refresh grub.conf on kernel installs/removals. OK, filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782919 . Thanks! |