Bug 1896960

Summary:	macefi: EFI filesystem type gets forced to HFS+ ESP that is not supported on RHEL
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Leon Fauster <leonfauster>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version:	8.2	CC:	bootloader-eng-team, javierm, jkonecny
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	8.0
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Description Leon Fauster 2020-11-11 22:49:49 UTC

Description of problem:

RHEL7 installed without problems on iMac workstation.

RHEL8 is not installable because the platform is detected as macefi.

That forces the EFI system partition to be formatted as HFS instead vfat.

https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/55492ad6166f2cd7aed0e802bdf5b4875dc20f29/tests/nosetests/pyanaconda_tests/modules/storage/platform_test.py#L240

RHEL8 does not provide hfsplus-tools nor hfsplus kernel module.

Solution: vfat is still a valid FS for the EFI system partition. This works for RHEL7. 

Anaconda should fallback to vfat for RHEL8 on macefi plattform.

Comment 3 Jiri Konecny 2022-04-25 13:55:22 UTC

Hello thank you for the report. However, Mac installations are not supported on RHEL and I would like to avoid change like this.

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-15 00:51:02 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 500 days