Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-25 Thread Paul Dufresne via devel
First I'd like to thanks people that made me realize I was confusing the GPT's partition type GUID and GPT's Unique partition GUID. And to also mention the filesystem UID. Because Fedora choose not to apply the BLS partition type GUID or BLS MBR type id, I believe we generate the following

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-25 Thread J. Randall Owens
On 24/05/2020 19:56, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > "These directories are defined below the placeholder file system $BOOT. This > placeholder file system shall be determined during installation time, and an > fstab entry for it shall be created mounting it to /boot. The installer > program

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-25 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 4:00 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:48 PM James Cassell > wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:42 PM Paul Dufresne via devel > > > wrote: > > > > Le 20-05-24 à 19 h 34, Naheem Zaffar a écrit

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:48 PM James Cassell wrote: > > > On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:42 PM Paul Dufresne via devel > > wrote: > > > > > > Le 20-05-24 à 19 h 34, Naheem Zaffar a écrit : > > > > The change record for this states that we are

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread James Cassell
On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:42 PM Paul Dufresne via devel > wrote: > > > > Le 20-05-24 à 19 h 34, Naheem Zaffar a écrit : > > > The change record for this states that we are not following the BLS at > > >

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:42 PM Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > > Le 20-05-24 à 19 h 34, Naheem Zaffar a écrit : > > The change record for this states that we are not following the BLS at > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ but > > the proposed update at > >

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:07 PM Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > > Well... I will try to repeat more clearly my claim: > > If Fedora want to pretend to implement the Boot Loader Specification, it > must, on a new disk formatted in GPT, end up with an entry in fstab for an > ESP partition

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:21 AM Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > > Well... it take time to me to get used to the Boot Loader Specification. > > I am being lazy here... asking people on the mailing list rather than trying > to determine it myself. > > After making an installation of Fedora, I

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via devel
Le 20-05-24 à 19 h 34, Naheem Zaffar a écrit : The change record for this states that we are not following the BLS at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ but the proposed update at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ . Thanks for

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Naheem Zaffar
The change record for this states that we are not following the BLS at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ but the proposed update at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ . It is not clear however if everyone has moved to the new spec or

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread James Cassell
On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 7:06 PM, Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > Well... I will try to repeat more clearly my claim: > > If Fedora want to pretend to implement the Boot Loader Specification, > it must, on a new disk formatted in GPT, end up with an entry in fstab > for an ESP partition

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via devel
Well... I will try to repeat more clearly my claim: If Fedora want to pretend to implement the Boot Loader Specification, it must, on a new disk formatted in GPT, end up with an entry in fstab for an ESP partition mounted on /boot: "These directories are defined below the placeholder file

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread stan via devel
On Sun, 24 May 2020 14:56:34 -0400 Paul Dufresne via devel wrote: > I have installed the May 22 Rawhide on a disk today, and I am now > realizing that the installer did not helped me enough to create valid > Boot Loader Specification partitions. > > So I wanted (still want) to make this disk

Re: Does the installer detects when a distro have already created BLS?

2020-05-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via devel
I have installed the May 22 Rawhide on a disk today, and I am now realizing that the installer did not helped me enough to create valid Boot Loader Specification partitions. So I wanted (still want) to make this disk dual boot (Fedora and NixOS). Because NixOS does not follows BLS (I think...