On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 01:11:08AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > On Sunday, July 5, 2020 1:03:34 AM MST Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > > It would be great that the installer, Anaconda, enables sd-boot for > > users running on UEFI system. The method was done before with both LILO > > and Grub decades ago and it was very surprising very few thought of that > > process especially for a distribution aiming to use latest technology. > > > > The question is for contributors running on legacy BIOS if they are > > willing to maintain it while the installer can focus to effectively use > > sd-boot. > > systemd-boot isn't really an option. It doesn't have the features that are > necessary for Fedora systems to actually be able to boot. It'd work on > Workstation, maybe, if they think their users will never need to know they're > even using a bootloader, and won't put /boot on LVM or LUKs encrypt it.
Default fedora disk layout in UEFI mode is partitions for ESP, /boot and LVM. If you ask for full disk encryption LVM is encrypted, ESP + boot are not. Which makes sense to me. Why would you encrypt /boot? The files you can find there are public anyway, you can download them from the fedora servers. Encrypting /boot would make the boot process more fragile for no benefit. sd-boot still wouldn't work out-of-the-box though, due to /boot being xfs not vfat and firmware typically not shipping with xfs drivers. We could that by using vfat for /boot. Or by shipping & using xfs.efi, simliar to how apple ships & uses apfs.efi to boot macOS from apfs filesystems. take care, Gerd _______________________________________________ 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
