Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:12:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: This sounds like a different bug than the one thats in the report above. I'd advise the commenter to open a new one on mkfs or anaconda to change the boot sector padding. It's part of the filesystem format, there's no way to change

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread John Reiser
On 12/03/2012 05:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:12:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: This sounds like a different bug than the one thats in the report above. I'd advise the commenter to open a new one on mkfs or anaconda to change the boot sector padding. It's part

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.12.2012 14:44, schrieb Matthew Garrett: On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:12:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: This sounds like a different bug than the one thats in the report above. I'd advise the commenter to open a new one on mkfs or anaconda to change the boot sector padding. It's

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Lars Seipel
On Monday 03 December 2012 14:58:05 Reindl Harald wrote: that is also the reason why /boot has to start on 2048 while over decades it was not needed You really want your partitions to be nicely aligned when using SSDs or similar. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.12.2012 19:37, schrieb Lars Seipel: On Monday 03 December 2012 14:58:05 Reindl Harald wrote: that is also the reason why /boot has to start on 2048 while over decades it was not needed You really want your partitions to be nicely aligned when using SSDs or similar. maybe, but as

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 07:25:16AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: On 12/03/2012 05:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: It's part of the filesystem format, there's no way to change it. This may be true, but not a priori. extN has feature flags which can be used to enable leaving more space, or other

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 2, 2012, at 7:57 PM, John Reiser jrei...@bitwagon.com wrote: Fourteen years ago in 1998 I published a boot loader for i386 that loaded linux kernel and initrd using filesystem lookup by name from ext2, occupying 446 bytes of MBR plus 2*510 bytes of bootblock from ext2. The space

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-02 19:21 (GMT) bugzi...@redhat.com composed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 --- Comment #19 from Chris Murphy --- Anaconda should not offer options that are expressly stated as not recommended by upstream. The problem is ext4's boot sector is only 512 bytes,

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.12.2012 23:32, schrieb Felix Miata: On 2012-12-02 19:21 (GMT) bugzi...@redhat.com composed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 --- Comment #19 from Chris Murphy --- Anaconda should not offer options that are expressly stated as not recommended by upstream. The

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:32:20 -0500 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-12-02 19:21 (GMT) bugzi...@redhat.com composed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 --- Comment #19 from Chris Murphy --- Anaconda should not offer options that are expressly stated as

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:36:58 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: grub2 in fedora is crap https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882721 I'm not the grub2 maintainer, but personally I would ask you for a more understandable report. What did you want to happen? What happened?

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.12.2012 00:15, schrieb Kevin Fenzi: On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:36:58 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: grub2 in fedora is crap https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882721 I'm not the grub2 maintainer, but personally I would ask you for a more understandable

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:21:44 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 03.12.2012 00:15, schrieb Kevin Fenzi: On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:36:58 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: grub2 in fedora is crap https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882721

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-02 18:12 (GMT-0500) Kevin Fenzi composed: On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:32:20 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: Changing the boot track without permission is rude, particularly since it doesn't bother to report it will obliterate what is already there present. Fedora ought to be able to be put

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 2, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:32:20 -0500 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-12-02 19:21 (GMT) bugzi...@redhat.com composed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 --- Comment #19 from Chris Murphy ---

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread John Reiser
I'm not seeing such an option in mke2fs. If it is possible to change the padding/offset, then it would be possible for a continuous installation of GRUB2's boot.img and core.img, without using block lists. I did get slightly incorrect, ext4 has two boot sectors, for a total of 1024 bytes