Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 months, which have been tested

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Peter Robinson
What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 months, which have been tested and work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864198

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Mar 20, 2015 8:15 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 months, which have

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2015 3:30 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. This is a 2.5 year old

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:27 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:27 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: Just use grubby for those? I'm not quite following the question. Grubby always gets

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:58 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 stuff for

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Seems like it's easier to just ditch grubby than patch it, if it takes years to merge patches to provide simple functionality that other

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.03.2015 um 18:58 schrieb drago01: That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated config file might cause issues with the grub that is actually installed on disk (we do not reinstall grub on updates) and you can't update grub that easy

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Seems like it's easier to just ditch grubby than patch it, if it takes years to merge patches to provide simple functionality that other distro's already have then we just need to drop it and go with some other solution.

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu said: Please let's pick a standard (or at least Fedora standard) way to store boot loader entries. The current system is awful. It's extra awful when you have to reinstall or switch boot loaders for whatever reason and all your boot entries

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and lets us use btrfs for /boot. Then as new features are added to grub2 for btrfs we

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Josef Bacik
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and lets us

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and lets us

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: That

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated config file might cause issues with the grub that is

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Well there's u-boot on ARMv7 and probably on aarch64 (uEFI is for the server spec, not necessarily other form factors), what about those users interested in using gummiboot instead of grub2? Gummiboot supports no file

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015, at 03:11 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ It seems to have died. See also https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2014-July/msg2.html (The current status quo for OSTree is that it writes

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated config file might cause issues with the grub that is actually installed on disk (we do not reinstall grub on updates). On UEFI it

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:58 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig

Re: /boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
This is interesting. This patch for Anaconda runs grub2-mkconfig twice when media is live + /boot is on Btrfs. https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/0fc01e834082f20896728f330faea8e0b200a159 and fixes this blocker bug: Boot fails because grub initrd entry isn't generated

/boot on Btrfs still not supported, main problem is anaconda and grubby

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Murphy
What's it going to take to fix this? Ubuntu supports it, openSUSE supports it, GRUB 2 has supported it for many years now. This is a 2.5 year old bug, with patches to fix the problem for ~9 months, which have been tested and work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864198 The short