For some reason, when running blivet-gui directly in a live session, it cannot create BIOS Boot partitions. The option simply is not in the list. But blivet-gui when run from the installer *can* create BIOS Boot partitions. This is a problem for the new web UI installer interface, which doesn't have any custom partitioning capability of its own and, for custom layouts, expects you to do the partitioning outside the installer then assign mount points in the installer. The only GUI partitioning tool we actually provide on the Workstation live is blivet-gui , but since it cannot create BIOS Boot partitions, it cannot actually create an installable layout on a BIOS system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot a current Fedora Rawhide Workstation live on an x86_64 BIOS system 2. Run 'blivet-gui' directly 3. Create a new partition, and examine the choices on the 'Filesystem' dropdown Actual Results: BIOS Boot is not present in the list Expected Results: BIOS Boot should be present in the list
Correction, we do also provide GNOME Disks, but that cannot create BIOS Boot partitions either. (Also note, blivet-gui does not have an entry in the app list, you can only run it if you know it's there and run 'blivet-gui' directly - GNOME Disks is the only really 'user-visible' tool installed by default).
upstream PR: https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet-gui/pull/402
FEDORA-2023-2f3ec99d17 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-2f3ec99d17
FEDORA-2023-c0fec59559 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-c0fec59559
FEDORA-2023-2f3ec99d17 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-2f3ec99d17` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-2f3ec99d17 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2023-c0fec59559 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-c0fec59559` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-c0fec59559 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2023-2f3ec99d17 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
The fix for this never actually made it to F39 :( Re-opening and proposing as a Beta FE. Obviously this makes 'custom' installation on BIOS rather inconvenient.
FEDORA-2023-3b49a21cb4 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-3b49a21cb4
*** Bug 2236046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Discussed in ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1226 The decision to classify this bug as an AcceptedFreezeException was made: "The issue was significant enough and impossible to fix on Live Media to warrant a FreezeException"
Fix confirmed in testing.
FEDORA-2023-c0fec59559 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2023-3b49a21cb4 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.