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 mounted on /boot: > > "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." > > ... > > "if the OS is installed on a disk with GPT disk label, and no ESP > partition exists yet, a new suitably sized (let's say 500MB) ESP should > be created and should be used as $BOOT" > > This is the rule you are supposed end up to follow for an empty GPT partition. > > And for now, the installer seems to make you define a specific > /boot/efi that it make ESP. To follow BLS, it should be /boot that is > the ESP partition... and I see no point to define an other /boot/efi > partition to be mounted on /boot. >
I agree with your assessment and am also confused about the discrepancy between BLS documentation and Fedora's implementation. V/r, James Cassell > ... > > "`$BOOT` must be a VFAT (16 or 32) file system. Other file system types > should not be used. Applications accessing `$BOOT` should hence not > assume that fancier file system features such as symlinks, hardlinks, > access control or case sensitivity are supported." > > > _______________________________________________ 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
