- in a non-PowerNV system (KVM/LPAR)
- with a partitions-based proposal
- if there are no PReP partitions
- requires only a PReP partition
- if the existent PReP partition is not in the target disk
- requires only a PReP partition
- if there is already a PReP partition in the disk
- does not require any particular volume
- if there are no PReP partitions
- with a LVM-based proposal
- if there are no PReP partitions
- requires /boot and PReP partitions
- if the existent PReP partition is not in the target disk
- requires /boot and PReP partitions
- if there is already a PReP partition in the disk
- only requires a /boot partition
- if there are no PReP partitions
- with a partitions-based proposal
- in bare metal (PowerNV)
- with a partitions-based proposal
- does not require any particular volume
- with a LVM-based proposal
- requires only a /boot partition
- with a partitions-based proposal
- when proposing a boot partition
- requires /boot to be ext4 with at least 100 MiB
- requires /boot to be in the system disk out of LVM
- recommends /boot to be 200 MiB
- when proposing a PReP partition
- requires it to be between 256KiB and 8MiB, despite the alignment
- recommends it to be 1 MiB
- requires it to be out of LVM
- requires it to be bootable (ms-dos partition table)
- using UEFI
- with a partitions-based proposal
- if there are no EFI partitions
- requires only a new /boot/efi partition
- if there is already an EFI partition
- only requires to use the existing EFI partition
- if there are no EFI partitions
- with a LVM-based proposal
- with an MS-DOS partition table
- if there are no EFI partitions
- requires /boot and a new /boot/efi partition
- if there is already an EFI partition
- requires /boot and a reused /boot/efi partition
- if there are no EFI partitions
- with GPT partition table
- if there are no EFI partitions
- if there is no GRUB partition
- requires a new /boot/efi and a new GRUB partition
- if there is already a GRUB partition
- requires only a new /boot/efi partition
- if there is no GRUB partition
- if there is already an EFI partition
- if there is no GRUB partition
- requires a reused /boot/efi and a new GRUB partition
- if there is already a GRUB partition
- only requires to use the existing EFI partition
- if there is no GRUB partition
- if there are no EFI partitions
- with an MS-DOS partition table
- with a partitions-based proposal
- not using UEFI (legacy PC)
- with an MS-DOS partition table
- with sufficently large MBR gap
- in a partitions-based proposal
- does not require any particular volume
- in a LVM-based proposal
- requires only a /boot partition [1]
- in a partitions-based proposal
- with too small MBR gap
- in a partitions-based proposal
- if proposing / as Btrfs
- does not require any particular volume
- if proposing / as non-Btrfs
- raises an exception [2]
- if proposing / as Btrfs
- in a LVM-based proposal
- raises an exception
- in a partitions-based proposal
- with no MBR gap
- TODO
- with GPT partition table
- if there is no GRUB partition
- in a partitions-based proposal
- only requires a new GRUB partition [3]
- in a LVM-based proposal
- only requires a new GRUB partition
- in a partitions-based proposal
- if there is already a GRUB partition
- in a partitions-based proposal
- does not require any particular volume
- in a LVM-based proposal
- does not require any particular volume
- in a partitions-based proposal
- if there is no GRUB partition
- with sufficently large MBR gap
- when proposing a boot partition
- requires /boot to be ext4 with at least 100 MiB
- requires /boot to be in the system disk out of LVM
- recommends /boot to be 200 MiB
- when proposing an new EFI partition
- requires /boot/efi to be vfat with at least 33 MiB
- requires /boot/efi to be out of LVM
- recommends /boot/efi to be 500 MiB
- requires /boot/efi to be close enough to the beginning of disk
- when proposing an new GRUB partition
- requires it to have the correct id
- requires it to be out of LVM
- requires it to be between 256KiB and 8MiB, despite the alignment
- recommends it to be 1 MiB
- with an MS-DOS partition table
[1] Needed for hibernation to work
[2] There is a chance that Grub2 can still be installed using blocklist mode, but IMHO it makes no much sense for us to propose a fragile layout.
[3] Not 100% sure why it is required