Re: dmesg restricted to root in Rawhide

2024-03-04 Thread Chris Murphy
x27;m in the wheel group as is everyone else by default installing Fedora. A vast majority of Fedora users have this peculiar UX where `journalctl -k` not not require `sudo` but `dmesg` does require it. I think that's annoying and weird. -- Chris Murphy -- __

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F39 to F40

2024-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
em: conflicting requests - package libva-intel-media-driver-24.1.3-1.fc40.i686 from fedora conflicts with intel-media-driver provided by intel-media-driver-24.1.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree - package libva-intel-media-driver-24.1.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with intel-m

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F39 to F40

2024-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, at 6:47 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, at 12:11 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> >> >> Do you want to make Fedora 40 better? Please spend 1 minute of your time and >> try to run: >> >> # Run this only if

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F39 to F40

2024-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
again > # This is last time we should do that :) > > sudo dnf module reset '*' > Uhh haha :) $ sudo dnf module reset '*' Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:30 ago on Wed 21 Feb 2024 06:41:04 PM MST. Unable to resolve argument * Error: Problems in reque

Re: Figure out what killed an app (rhbz#2253099)

2024-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
urces it needs, up to the point that the user wants an interactive desktop - and then the kernel needs to (in effect) preempt the resource hungry processes in favor of user-desktop interactivity. Resource control can do this but we don't have everything wired up yet, mo

troff noise when grepping man page?

2023-11-29 Thread Chris Murphy
ewly installed not an upgrade, but the ~/ is positively ancient (possibly 5 years). Any ideas what's going on, how to get more information, and what component to file a bug against? -- Chris Murphy -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproj

kdump enabled in F39

2023-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
hat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243068 Thanks, -- 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

Re: btrfs loses 32-bit application compatibility after a while

2023-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
the meantime, whatever parent directory is used for the chroots could be swapped out with a subvolume for a short term work around. It doesn't sound like the problem happens very quickly. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
ink servers would prefer the peak performance in general ? Maybe. But I'm not aware of any recent data one way or the other, certainly nothing Fedora specific. I don't expect full preemption will impact servers in any meaningful way. I just can't

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, at 9:51 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19 2023 at 06:50:24 PM -0400, Chris Murphy > wrote: >> If restricted to desktops, then we can only do it with kernel >> parameters. That probably means doing it in Anaconda kickstart, with >> a

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-07-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 24, 2023, at 2:12 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2023, at 4:43 PM, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > Therefore, I am >> asking if Fedora should use full kernel preemption by default. > > https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/228 > > The outstanding

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default (System-Wide)

2023-06-27 Thread Chris Murphy
had to web search to find it. But it is the first option on that page. https://alt.fedoraproject.org/ -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, at 7:20 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> OK I tried this again and discover shim is signed twice. >> >> Issuer: C=US, ST=Washington, L=Redmond, O=Microsoft Corporation, >> CN=Microsoft Corporation UEFI

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
dual signatures, whether or not it's a problem. -- 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/

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
sha256sum hashes. So maybe there isn't actually a problem other than it's confusing that there are two signatures that also have different validity periods? I'm not sure what it means. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedor

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-05-30 Thread Chris Murphy
if that's fully implemented yet in Fedora. -- 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/

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 24, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Peter Boy wrote: >> Am 24.05.2023 um 20:30 schrieb Chris Murphy : >> >> I'm pretty sure we no longer have a program manager? > > What’s that about? As I understand it, part of recent Red Hat layoffs. Red Hat and Fedora program/p

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
wavelength photo receptor (i.e. green). So given the same amount of radiant energy emitted across the visible spectrum, green will appear to be the brightest. Light purple is OK, Blue, indigo, or yellow tends to be harder to to detect complex shapes (like letters and numbers) but I'm

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
;m pretty sure we no longer have a program manager? So I'm kinda expecting a lot of things to just silently break. I don't know what the fallback plan is. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
ot parameter, rather than just flipping the default across the board and not having a boot parameter. Anyway, it seems like it would be semi-straightforward to do it in Anaconda just for desktops using kickstart `bootloader --append=` command. https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstar

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 7:36 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:34 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> __ >> >> >> On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 2:24 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:02 PM Nea

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 7:11 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> Read-only drivers, which are the only drivers under discussion here, aren't >> a per se problem because they can't modify the file system. So they have no >> compl

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
nce forever. Read-only drivers, which are the only drivers under discussion here, aren't a per se problem because they can't modify the file system. So they have no complaints about that. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
o setup block devices, discover their contents, and perform switch root. The next most common use case(s), device-mapper and md based, require a pile of user space programs running to do all the work setting things up. Maybe we can just get away with two images, a simple fast on

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
; other hand you claim there's too much kernel+initrd in the boot > process? > > What is it now? Pick one: more initrd or less initrd? I've only ever said I want faster boot and smaller initrd. Everything else is pointing out the consequences of alternatives, not advoc

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
drive-partitions?view=windows-11 "The minimum size of this partition is 100 MB, and must be formatted using the FAT32 file format." So I'm not sure if Microsoft got the memo, and it's actually vendors' OEM images that are using large ESP size? -- Chris Murphy _

Re: Fun with GRUB2, BLS and Multiboot USB

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
b.cfg. I guess hindsight being 20/20 we could have changed grubx64.efi to look for "grub.static" in the same directory as the EFI program instead of "grub.cfg" and then there'd only be one grub.cfg and it'd be the real one rather than the forwarding one. -- Chr

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 2:47 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:31:01PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> > What about the increasing growth in linux-firmware and in particular the >> > NVIDIA firmwa

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
unk of the Linux > kernel, of Linux userspace, systemd and so on in EFI mode. > > Good luck with that. Right. Hence Linux Boot. Dump all the toy drivers in favor of real ones. And a real user space. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
I have reinstalled Windows 10 and 11 using the microsoft.com procured installer as of a year ago and it likewise creates a 100M ESP. Maybe Microsoft didn't get the memo and the space requirement is really something the OEM's are concerned about? So I expect this problem is not only our p

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, at 12:02 PM, stan via devel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:48:11 -0400 > "Chris Murphy" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For a long time I've noticed lost history from multiple Terminal >> tab/windows. It seems like the last ta

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Murphy
losed). From time to time I see zero length files, e.g. .bash_history-04863.tmp appear but I don't know what they do, there's nothing in them. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Murphy
y where this belongs as a default, .bashrc or .bash_profile or some parent file that's copied to create these files (for new users); b) if this is (still) an optimal way to go about it; c) what are the possible negative side effects? Any thoughts? -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-01-17 Thread Chris Murphy
e who is not responsible for TBs of data and > thousands of users can talk like this. The least you have to do is test > and check what effects it has and prove that the concern is unjustified. The proposal changes a default behavior. It's not itself an override. -- Chris Murphy _

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-23 Thread Chris Murphy
because the write order is eventually honored by the host. There's a variety of complex journal replay behaviors of the various file systems that'll come into play (no pun intended). -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fe

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
much. And for it to be logged, sysroot needs to be rw. > > In some cases I know that the system is rebuilding the nvidia drivers so that > graphics work on boot up. I'd like to let that finish and it certainly takes > more than 15 seconds. But without a blame message, how do we kno

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
ot should be, no space is wasted and I don't run out either), I'm willing to give it up for practical matters like simplicity and reduced attack and maintenance surface area. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedo

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
all distros should be able to put their signed efifs drivers on the ESP because that's the only way their bootloader can read loader/entries to properly draw a boot menu. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fed

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, at 6:22 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 20/12/2022 19:56, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Great. The gotcha though is this in effect requires a change in the file >> system currently mounted at /boot, which is ext4. And ext4 isn't supported >> b

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
;s fine. But if the host is forcibly rebooted before the VM's pending writes are completed by the host, that'd be bad (regardless of the file system choice). Also I wonder if there's a way for desktops to opt into this behavior? Or a way for servers, iot,

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
> set in kickstart file part commands. Wow, great news! -- 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

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > For example: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120845 > > For that matter, grubby likewise steps on *all* BLS snippets found in > /boot/loader/entries when using the --update=ALL flag, not just the BLS > sn

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > So I think the first big barrier to entry is answering the questions: > > * Enhance parted/libparted to support arbitrary GUIDs and enhance > blivet to understand the full listing of GUIDs? Or > > * Enhance parted/li

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
after each initrd is generated. Or if we could do enough strict standardization in the boot chain with a possibly larger kernel to avoid needing an initrd, i.e. get to sysroot mount faster thereby obviating the need for a large initrd. The problem with

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
screen appears, at which point it starts background downloading repomd. It quickly catches up to, and surpasses, Live media memory consumption. Off hand, I'm not sure what's producing all the anonymous pages during Live installation but it's a fairly linear increase as the inst

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
on the change list for Fedora 37. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Co

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
g. There's a very real energy hit of all this compression and decompression. I don't know how to weigh the costs and figure out a compromise, but totally ignoring one of the costs is probably incorrect. For all I know a balanced approach means using

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
adata. All of it is downloaded before we have partitioning done, thus the repo metadata isn't stored on disk, rather in memory and it's tmpfs so it may not be compressed either (at least it's not subject to swap on zram out of the gate). I'm pretty sure partitioning happens befor

Re: F38 prospoal: Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-11-11 Thread Chris Murphy
bootloader in EFI/FedoraB At any point of failure, only the EFI/FedoraA bootloader path is used. Once everything in EFI/FedoraB is committed to stable media, set bootnext FedoraB. If the boot fails, automatic failback to FedoraA. If the boot succeeds, bootupd can change

Re: Grub menu with 3 kernels by default

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Murphy
://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049849 The GUI tool can use efibootmgr to set bootnext or even bootorder. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Grub menu with 3 kernels by default

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, at 11:43 AM, Geraldo Simião Kutz wrote: > On my acer Aspire laptop it's the "esc" key. Works everytime I want to see > the grub menu. The gotcha with ESC is that it brings up firmware settings on qemu-kvm when using UEFI (edk2-ovm

Re: Grub menu with 3 kernels by default

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Murphy
x27;ve found, because it's reserved by UEFI firmware for one of its menus. And SHIFT has never worked. Maybe Esc or TAB? Given this inconsistency, I have a mixed opinion of the hidden GRUB menu. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@li

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Allan via devel wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:31:11 -0600 > "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > The original PinePhone only comes with a 16GB eMMC. Using 4GB for > journal on that would for sure be insane. The root file system for this d

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 12:13 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:12:57AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Fedora uses systemd-journald for system logging. By default it is a >> persistent log kept on /var, and uses up to 4G disk sp

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
erride.conf. I hadn't considered the container case at all, that containers running systemd-journald would have their own journals and retention policy. I wonder if the container default should have volatile journals? Or forward the journals to the host by de

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
re rotated weekly, it should mean a given journal file won't have more than a week's worth of entries. So you'd have between 4-5 weeks worth of entries at any given time. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.f

limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
tion/issue/213 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17382 -- 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.o

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
nt in requiring grub2 to do > something it cannot do. An additional topic is having boot entries for Windows (and macOS) that don't work in the meantime. While we could just remove the scripts that create these entries to chainload another bootloader, they're still needed for BIOS

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
on working group discussed it at today's meeting, and there were no objections to the language change proposal. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
y forward is efibootmgr, and see if desktops want to add a GUI wrapper around it. -- 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:

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-19 Thread Chris Murphy
The Windows installer drops a payload on the drive, and sets a bootnext for an entry that points to the Windows bootloader, not via GRUB. And then, the instant we update either shim or grub, Windows boot will break. I think working around this is sufficiently tedious no us

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, at 9:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, at 8:27 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> Another is that LUKS filesystem decryption uses a deliberately >> "memory-hard" algorithm called Argon2 which requires loads of RAM and >> some

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-30 Thread Chris Murphy
tted by cryptsetup if there's significant memory pressure, i.e. high potential that a future Fedora might fail to open this volume. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@list

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> There *is* a workaround, BTW - I didn't mention this in my original >> mail, and probably should have. At least according to discussion in the >> bug,

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
se that instead. Yes, but will you be able to install it? Yes you could go to koji, download the correct RPMs, and have rpm do it without dnf but... that'd be a pretty saucy work around. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: [fedora-arm] Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
that app. So it can sometimes be difficult to figure out whether your app's resource requirements are reasonable/normal or if it's run away. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

F36->F37 dnf system upgrade errors

2022-08-16 Thread Chris Murphy
onment Groups: Fedora Custom Operating System Minimal Install Fedora Server Edition Fedora Cloud Server KDE Plasma Workspaces Xfce Desktop LXDE Desktop LXQt Desktop Cinnamon Desktop MATE Desktop Sugar Desktop Environment Deepin Desktop Development and Creative

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, at 6:51 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: > > I suppose Anaconda would have to be involved, detect encrypted partitions and > provide a hint when the bootloader is created. It would be a static solution, > far from ideal, but arguably better than the current state. I think a GRUB pa

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-29 Thread Chris Murphy
EFI binary would need to be signed with an appropriate Fedora CA for UEFI Secure Boot. I don't know if making this a standlone EFI program really accelerates getting it ready to deploy, compared to just making it a GRUB module. -- Chris Murphy

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-29 Thread Chris Murphy
RAID to increase uptime following failure is OK. But degraded boot is fraught with problems and unreliability. I don't think it should be a requirement for any Fedora product. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 4:38 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: >> - Documentation: GRUB's Windows boot option may not work, how to use >> efibootmgr --bootnext and --bootorder > > Currently there is this (insufficient, of course): > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/windows-with-encrypted-disks-bitlocker-c

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022, at 2:47 PM, Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 1:34 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> Seems to me the only valid type code for a merged ESP+XBOOTLDR is ESP. What >> am I missing? > > Right. I'd like to use the ESP type code for the m

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-28 Thread Chris Murphy
gnize a > merged ESP+XBOOTLDR partition without having to set that special variable. Seems to me the only valid type code for a merged ESP+XBOOTLDR is ESP. What am I missing? -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-28 Thread Chris Murphy
now or also wait a bit longer. ack/nack/patch? -- 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

Re: BitLocker (was Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux)

2022-07-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022, at 2:11 AM, Vojtech Trefny wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 5:53 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >> > Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: >> >> My understanding

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 9:46 PM, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 17:37 Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 5:07 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> > On Mi, 27.07.22 17:01, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wro

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 5:07 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 27.07.22 17:01, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > 65;6800;1c >> If the additional barrier to adoption that Fedora imposes is that >> every distro needs to also include signed efifs ext4 in orde

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 27.07.22 16:19, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > >> >> Boot Loader Spec defines $BOOT as either EFI System partition (ESP) or >> >> Extended Boot Loader Partition (XBOOTLDR),

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
rg/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W6BI4G7NST6WXIMF6GPAKC6R4EE6OS2D/ -- 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

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 4:27 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 27/07/2022 22:19, Chris Murphy wrote: >> * $BOOT is supposed to be readable by all distros that share $BOOT > > It will. efifs will be installed to ESP partition. > >> * efifs drivers must be signed

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 2:36 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 27/07/2022 18:53, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Boot Loader Spec defines $BOOT as either EFI System partition (ESP) or >> Extended Boot Loader Partition (XBOOTLDR), and in effect they need to be FAT >> in

Re: BitLocker (was Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux)

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Milan Broz wrote: > On 27/07/2022 17:52, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >>> Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: >>>> My understanding is that Windows preloads are now blank-encr

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 12:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:13:57AM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 4:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> > >> > Since you say systemd-boot can already do wha

Re: BitLocker (was Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux)

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
, in order for anaconda to have a chance of treating them differently. I'm not sure what the consideration would be though. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproje

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
for those who need dual boot with Windows Given resources, I expect it would be more likely to replace GRUB with systemd-boot, on UEFI, than support both. And the likelihood of anything but GRUB I'd put at "very low". I'd like to be wrong but... -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
ws boot menu would get removed on UEFI > systems - it would be good to do this only if anaconda detects a Bitlocker > partition. There's no need to make it harder for Windows users who do not > have their disks encrypted. GRUB isn't that smart. Bitlocker could be enabled

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 7:18 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> a. Fix GRUB by giving it the ability to modify UEFI NRAM "bootnext" value, >> so that instead of chainloading the Windows bootloader from GRUB, GRUB will >> modify

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 9:15 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> Summary: Windows 10/11 increasingly enables Bitlocker (full disk >> encryption) out of the box with the encryption key sealed in the TPM. > […] >> The Bitlocker encryption key is u

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 4:59 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:43 PM Kevin Kofler via devel > wrote: >> >> Chris Murphy wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> >> As I already mentioned the las

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 4:42 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >>> As I already mentioned the last time this has come up: Why can we not, >>> instead of chainloading Windows di

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
ndows directly. (I do not see why it would notice any difference, all that > would change is the name of the image that gets chainloaded.) And systemd- > boot does not need to know that it is being chainloaded from GRUB. So I do > not see why that would not work, without any changes

future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
e an existing clean Windows installation, install and configure a bootloader that will boot Fedora. d. Consider the problem sufficiently difficult to fix that we need an extension to the exceptional case allowance, and wave the bug for another release. Thoughts? -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: F37 change proposal: Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition (System-Wide change)

2022-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
of Fedora GA isn't available two > weeks before GA date so it's > hard for us to ship GA content in our `stable` stream on GA day and follow > our current update model. > > We do have the `next` stream which does get updated often in the weeks before > GA, but

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
; under the hood this will automatically just work. I suspect that it won't > work. Probably for those variants > we'd just need to include the `linux-firmware-all` package (or whatever > equivalent to get what we currently have). Or could the plugin be used to cr

Re: F37 change proposal: Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition (System-Wide change)

2022-06-27 Thread Chris Murphy
ora Engineering Steering Committee. > > > == Summary == > > This change is to promote Fedora CoreOS to Edition status alongside > Workstation, Server and IoT. Consider updating the proposal to include Cloud since it now has Edition stat

Re: Suggestion: Use a unified kernel image by default in the future.

2022-06-27 Thread Chris Murphy
ty modules with a Fedora kernel, or using locked down kernel features, but I'm not sure what the alternative is. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedorapr

Re: Fedora Spins SIG Proposal: Fedora Mate SIG and Cinnamon SIG

2022-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
Most things related to testing and prerelease happen in the Fedora QA team. We're just post-release for F36 so there's not a lot of visible activity, but things will be picking up again soon. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA -- Chris Murphy On Sat, Jun 4, 2022, 12:04 PM Ahm

Re: F37 proposal: Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-06-03 Thread Chris Murphy
esults in a > deterioration. Why do you want it so badly? It's not completely different, it results in the *exact* problem you're complaining about. You don't get to say the effect of GPT > 2T is OK, but it's a negative when applied to < 2T as if your entire strategy fo

Re: F37 proposal: Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-06-03 Thread Chris Murphy
criterion, using unambiguous language, narrowly defining the requirement (b) documentation changes (c) creating test cases (d) resources to actually run the test cases every release cycle (e) optionally+hopfully some portion of the testing can be automated but all the previous it

Re: F37 proposal: Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-05-29 Thread Chris Murphy
on legacy > > x86 BIOS systems will get GPT partitioning by default instead of > > legacy MBR partitioning. This makes x86 BIOS installs more similar to > > x86 UEFI installs. > > > > == Owner == > > * Name: [[User:Ngompa| Neal Gompa]], [[User:Dcavalca| Davide >

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