Re: ostree host from scratch w/o anaconda

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

 

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 04:44 AM, Leandro Santiago wrote:

I apologize for resurrecting this thread, but has anyone had success on this process? I was previously using anaconda to deploy an ostree based system, but due some anaconda's bugs and limitations,

 

Hm, what were those?  Did you file any bugs/issues?

 

 

I am also open to use syslinux, as my use case is not that complex to require grub.

My best regards,

 

GNOME Continuous currently uses syslinux with a separate /boot partition.  See

this code:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-continuous/tree/src/js/libqa.js#n330

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-continuous/tree/src/js/libqa.js#n406

 

Basically it boots qemu with a special systemd target.

 

Though honestly I'm forgetting now why we stopped using the

`guestfs_extlinux` command http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html

 

But for my use of OSTree in Project Atomic, supporting bare metal deployments

(things like EFI etc.) and an array of storage formats is important, so integrating

with Anaconda made sense  (as opposed to having custom VM-specific code).

That said I'm open to improving things for cases outside of it.