storage: no need in HFS+ on Apple Macs #4865
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/kickstart-test --testtype smoke |
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We don't have Mac for testing so I would go with just smoke testing in this case. |
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So a few notes to this: it seems that this code is here for a long time. It was originally named hfs+ and introduced here: 383a190 in RHEL-5. So there is low chance we will find more about it :D About the PR, please remove all the occurrences of the class - see the tests. |
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Doesn't this effectively mean we stop supporting the intel macs as an installation target? |
It does not, because Intel Macs understand FAT16 and FAT32, and macOS there itself makes a FAT UEFI partition, but cannot create an HFS+ UEFI partition. This will allow to reuse the EFI with macos. |
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Both variants work:
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We tested with macbooks from 2009, 2010 and probably from 2008 and a bit later ones. Is is possible to create a Fedora LiveCD with Anaconda with this patch so that I would test Fedora on them with this change? We tested ROSA. |
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Another user tested it (https://abf.io/platforms/rosa2021.1/products/316/product_build_lists/47297) on Macbook Air 13 from 2016 and reported that Anaconda works correctly there. |
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This PR is stale because it has been open 60 days with no activity. |
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This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. |
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This was closed by accident. The team wants to merge it. |
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Hello @mikhailnov! Thanks for updating this PR. We checked the lines you've touched for PEP 8 issues, and found:
Comment last updated at 2023-12-08 14:25:22 UTC |
Tests have shown that: * HFS-specific code in grub-install utility contains silly mistakes (https://abf.io/import/grub2/blob/1145a32d77/0001-grub-install-fix-creating-mach_kernel-on-x86-mac.patch) * even whith that patch, that code is broken and registers an incorrect bootloader entry via efibootmgr in UEFI (we in ROSA patch Anaconda to call grub2-install directly instead of calling efibootmgr inside Anaconda for unification) * macOS installer does not allow to create an HFS+ partition for EFI and creates a FAT partition by default It is not clear what for the removed code existed. This patch fixes installation on x86 macs. Did not test on ARM-based macbooks (I think they should also simply follow the UEFI specification and do not require removed hacks). Co-authored-by: Mikhail Novosyolov <[email protected]>
Clean up after the 708a8f9 commit.
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Great, thanks! 😊 |
Tests have shown that:
It is not clear what for the removed code existed. This patch fixes installation on x86 macs.
Did not test on ARM-based macbooks (I think they should also simply follow the UEFI specification and do not require removed hacks).
Co-authored with @temaps