GRUB md RAID and file system support
by Chris Murphy
I have filed two doc bugs that are fairly easy to fix. GRUB will assemble and boot pretty much anything these days: md RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 6; and in addition to ext[234], it understands FAT, NTFS, ZFS, HFS+, XFS and Btrfs. It'll even boot from Btrfs subvols, on a volume configured using data profile single, raid[0,1,10].
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887987
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888099
There are some limitations for how many devices GRUB may be able to find. It seems like 4 devices is a safe lowest common denominator (accounts for some Btrfs 5+ disk boot failures).
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-01/msg00025.html
Chris Murphy
11 years, 3 months
PXE Secure Boot configuration - which guide?
by Jack Reed
Hi everyone,
Through my work on the Installation Guide I've come across the issue of
Secure Boot for UEFI systems through a bug that Neil Horman has been
helping me with [1] regarding PXE boot configuration on UEFI for IPv6
systems, plus IPv4 and IPv6 systems to enable Secure Boot.
In Comment 4, he suggests that perhaps the non-Secure Boot points could
be documented in the Installation Guide, either in or adjacent to the
current section on PXE boot configuration [2], while the Secure Boot
points could go in the UEFI Secure Boot Guide, which I see is in draft
form for F18 [3].
Based on the bug and your knowledge of Secure Boot, what do people think
about where this information should go? If it went into the Secure Boot
Guide, the Installation Guide could just direct users there. But perhaps
it's crucial enough that it should be duplicated.
And, of course, what is the status of the UEFI Secure Boot Guide? Will
it be released for F18?
I'd be glad of any thoughts on this, particularly from Sparks, Kevin, or
Josh. That said, I'm putting this out there now for people to chew on,
but with the holidays approaching we needn't worry about this until
January. I'll check in then and perhaps we can decide how to proceed.
Thanks, and happy holidays!
Jack
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871565
[2]
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/s1-...
[3]
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html-s...
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Jack Reed
Content Author
Engineering Content Services
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Brisbane, Australia
Phone: +617 3514 8184
11 years, 3 months
Docs meeting summary -- 31 December 2012
by Ben Cotton
Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (bcotton, 14:00:49)
* Participants are reminded to make liberal use of #info #link #help
in order to make the minutes "more better" (bcotton, 14:05:33)
* Follow up on last week's action items (bcotton, 14:05:41)
* ACTION: jjmcd_ to update the install directory for the Release Notes
(bcotton, 14:09:28)
* Fedora 18 schedule (bcotton, 14:11:20)
* LINK:
http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-18/f-18-docs-tasks.html
(bcotton, 14:11:26)
* F18 final is scheduled for 8 Jan (bcotton, 14:11:33)
* Burning ISOs and Live Images Guides are updated and have been passed
to trans (bcotton, 14:12:11)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_release_announcement
(zoglesby, 14:13:31)
* HELP: zoglesby needs help with
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_release_announcement (bcotton,
14:13:49)
* ACTION: bcotton to solicit guide updates on mailing list (bcotton,
14:14:45)
* Release Notes (bcotton, 14:18:57)
* /usr/share/help (bcotton, 14:24:20)
* FUDcon NA (bcotton, 14:25:04)
* In Lawrence, KS January 18-20 (bcotton, 14:25:10)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Lawrence_2013 (bcotton,
14:25:16)
* Outstanding BZ Tickets ( (bcotton, 14:29:39)
* LINK: http://tinyurl.com/lbrq84 (bcotton, 14:29:48)
* Open floor discussion (bcotton, 14:30:25)
Meeting ended at 14:31:57 UTC.
Action Items
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* jjmcd_ to update the install directory for the Release Notes
* bcotton to solicit guide updates on mailing list
Action Items, by person
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* bcotton
* bcotton to solicit guide updates on mailing list
* jjmcd_
* jjmcd_ to update the install directory for the Release Notes
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* bcotton (53)
* randomuser (11)
* zoglesby (10)
* jjmcd_ (7)
* zodbot (3)
* Sparks (1)
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-12-31/fedora_docs.20...
Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-12-31/fedora_docs.20...
Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-12-31/fedora_docs.20...
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Ben Cotton
Fedora Docs Leader
11 years, 3 months
