Bug 1129507

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anaconda.log

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journal.log

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program.log

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storage.log

Proposing as F21 Alpha Blocker per the Disk Selection release criteria "Disks not selected as installation targets must not be affected by the installation process in any way."

This *technically* isn't violated by this bug - the disks are, in fact, never touched by anaconda. What is touched is the pointers to said disks - which, in a literal sense, makes them "affected by the installation process".

Discussed at the 2014-08-13 blocker review meeting:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2014-08-13/

Rejected as a blocker, because Anaconda doesn't support multiple Fedora installations using UEFI at the moment. Hopefully they can come up with some kind of a warning in relevant cases to prevent people losing access to their existing systems.

I think it's rather the case that Fedora is designed to handle multiple Fedora UEFI installs using grub, not efibootmgr; the idea is that the grub menu you see after selecting the Fedora efibootmgr entry should give you access to all the Fedora installations. I'm not sure if that's actually currently the case, but it is, I think, what the *intent* is.

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This or a very similar situation arises with Fedora 23 install using an external USB HDD on a laptop with Fedora 21 installed on the internal HDD. The default EFI boot option (actually the only option) is overwritten and prevents booting of the laptop when the USB HDD is removed. This leaves the user having to re-install the correct EFI boot option for the internal HDD. The efibootmgr will, if the correct options, are used indicate that you are overwriting the existing boot option called Fedora. 

Either the user should be prompted to verify this is correct or perhaps a better option would be to call the newly created boot option with a name like Fedora23 (in this case) this would leave both boot options intact and allow booting of the laptop from the internal HDD without having to resort to booting a Live ISO and reinstall the EFI boot options with efibootmgr. In any case the ability to boot from the internal HDD should not be affected by the install process.

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