On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 12:19:46PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 22.06.23 12:24, Jeremy Linton (jeremy.lin...@arm.com) wrote: > > > But, IMHO the largest change is moving the boot kernel/initrd to the ESP, > > rather than the use of systemd-boot itself. Given the filesystem layout > > remains the same outside of those two items and the BLS entries, all the > > common tools (dracut/etc) seem to be able to deal with it, and random other > > packages not manipulating kernel/initrd images are behavior should not be > > affected anymore than putting reFind/whatever in the boot path. > > While putting kernle/initrd (UKIs) into the ESP is a good thing > systemd-boot actually is fine with loading them from a separate boot > partition to, i.e. the XBOOTLDR partition, which in many ways is > similar to traditional /boot/, but must be marked via recognized > XBOOTLDR partition type uuid. (also it must be a firmware recognizable > fs, i.e. vfat)
NB, Fedora doesn't currently have a supported way to making /boot be compliant with XBOOTLDR requirements, as anaconda blocks use of vfat on /boot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106706 > Such an XBOOTLDR partition is supposed to be the escape hatch if the > ESP is pre-existing and too small to contain multiple full sized > UKIs. But you could also make it an escape hatch for simplifying > transitions from the status quo ante. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
