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#3065 New workstation WebUI is enforcing a requirement for a separate /boot
Closed: Insufficient data by sgallagh. Opened by geraldosimiao.

Closed: Insufficient data
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As discussed during the 2023-09-04 blocker review meeting, regarding this ticket proposed as a blocker:
"This does not really violate any Beta criteria, though we see significant concerns with whether it's appropriate for anaconda to suddenly start enforcing a requirement for a separate /boot when it did not previously. Accepted as an FE - if we do change this, it makes sense to do so for Beta, not change it between Beta and Final."

The question is: do we want to add this restriction on fedora workstation without any further discussion?

Gerd summarized the reasons why a separate partition for /boot is desirable [1]. It is possible to do an install without separate /boot, and while it works in various scenarios, having a separate /boot covers various additional cases and is compatible with various changes we might want to do in the future. So I think it's reasonable for Anaconda to enforce this, to allow changes in the future and to make various different scenarios similar. People who do installs via kickstart or similar can adjust without too much problem. I would leave the decision on this to Anaconda developers. I don't think this is something for FESCo to get involved in.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234640#c7

I think we should resolve this somehow, let's add it to the agenda for the next meeting.

Metadata Update from @zbyszek:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

AGREED: If a separate /boot partition is to become a hard
requirement in the Anaconda UI, we would like this to go through the
Change Process for Fedora 40 (+6, 0, -0) (sgallagh, 17:51:29)

Metadata Update from @sgallagh:
- Issue untagged with: meeting
- Issue close_status updated to: Insufficient data
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Note the UI has not yet changed, but no Change has been proposed. The deadline is 2023-12-26. If nothing changes by then, I will re-open this to request FESCo denote the bug as a blocker.
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