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#3022 Change: Clean Systemd-boot installs
Closed: Accepted by zbyszek. Opened by amoloney.

Closed: Accepted
Reopen Issue

Fedora default installs with a shim + grub bootloader on EFI
platforms, yet has been shipping systemd-boot in various forms for a
number of releases. There are a few howto's which describe how to
replace grub with systemd-boot with varying levels of functionality.
This should be easier with a formalized default method that can be
built upon. This proposal aims to complete the work started with
anaconda (inst.sdboot), kickstart (bootloader --sdboot) such that the
"everything" media can install a grub free machine.

Owners, do not implement this work until the FESCo vote has explicitly ended.
The Fedora Program Manager will create a tracking bug in Bugzilla for this Change, which is your indication to proceed.
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REMINDER: This ticket is for FESCo members to vote on the proposal. Further discussion should happen in the devel list thread linked above.

+1, will be great to have this option for users who don't want / need GRUB.

+1

+1

+1 because I think this is generally very useful. I have various qualms about implementation details, but nothing blocking.

It doesn't attempt to create unified kernel images, so the existing dnf update, kdumpctl, and make install in a kernel source directory should all work.

I tried to explain this on the mailing list, but this text is still in the Change page. This description is severely misleading: dnf update should work completely fine with UKIs. Kernel make install would also work completely fine if we did ln -sf --relative /usr/bin/kernel-install /usr/sbin/installkernel. I don't know about kdumpctl. I would very much prefer if this was reworded, because users will be confused by the current text.

possibly adding additional space to the EFI system partition during partitioning to guarantee there is sufficient space for the number of bootable kernels active on the machine (~100MB each should be more than sufficient)

Hmm, and what about the XBOOTLDR a.k.a. /boot? If things are set up properly, kernel-install will place kernels there, not in ESP.

Edited by zbyszek

After a week, this is:
APPROVED (+4, 0, 0)

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Announced.

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