Bug 1979053 - Missing option to disable marking GPT with pmbr_boot flag
Summary: Missing option to disable marking GPT with pmbr_boot flag
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 35
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1972377
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Reported: 2021-07-04 14:59 UTC by Neal Gompa
Modified: 2022-12-13 15:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-12-13 15:25:59 UTC
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Description Neal Gompa 2021-07-04 14:59:58 UTC
Description of problem:
When installing as hybrid BIOS+UEFI on GPT, Anaconda sets the pmbr_boot flag by default on the volume, which makes it unbootable with OVMF-based UEFI environments (which is nearly all of them).

To solve this, it'd be great to have a flag for "clearpart" that makes it possible to tell Anaconda to tell Blivet to not set the pmbr_boot flag on the disk.

As a suggestion, something like "--no-gpt-pmbr-boot-flag" for clearpart would do the trick.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
35.18-1.fc35

Additional info:
See corresponding ML post about this: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2021-July/msg00000.html

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2021-08-10 13:10:59 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 35 development cycle.
Changing version to 35.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2022-11-29 16:59:28 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 35 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 35 on 2022-12-13.
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2022-12-13 15:25:59 UTC
Fedora Linux 35 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-12-13.

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