This is curious, I'm noticing this with Fedora 23 and Rawhide workstation live images. On BIOS, media check is in a submenu, it's not the default option. Whereas on UEFI systems, it's the 2nd option on the menu and is the default option.
All other media, Server DVD, Atomic ISO, all netinstalls, media check is the default option.
Bug that it's not the default option for live installs on BIOS systems?
Because it's slow, and doesn't have a great way of notifying the user of either success or failure, I kinda question whether it makes sense to make it the default. But the main question is why is the default inconsistent.
On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 15:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
This is curious, I'm noticing this with Fedora 23 and Rawhide workstation live images. On BIOS, media check is in a submenu, it's not the default option. Whereas on UEFI systems, it's the 2nd option on the menu and is the default option.
All other media, Server DVD, Atomic ISO, all netinstalls, media check is the default option.
Bug that it's not the default option for live installs on BIOS systems?
Because it's slow, and doesn't have a great way of notifying the user of either success or failure, I kinda question whether it makes sense to make it the default. But the main question is why is the default inconsistent.
The defaults across installer and live media, and UEFI and BIOS, have never been entirely consistent. I tried to line them up a bit a few years ago but never got it fully done.
It's certainly a bug in my opinion that they're not consistent, but it'd be better to come up with patches than just file a bug, I know several people are aware of this, but it's just not filtered up to the top of anyone's todo list at any point, I don't think.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 15:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
This is curious, I'm noticing this with Fedora 23 and Rawhide workstation live images. On BIOS, media check is in a submenu, it's not the default option. Whereas on UEFI systems, it's the 2nd option on the menu and is the default option.
All other media, Server DVD, Atomic ISO, all netinstalls, media check is the default option.
Bug that it's not the default option for live installs on BIOS systems?
Because it's slow, and doesn't have a great way of notifying the user of either success or failure, I kinda question whether it makes sense to make it the default. But the main question is why is the default inconsistent.
The defaults across installer and live media, and UEFI and BIOS, have never been entirely consistent. I tried to line them up a bit a few years ago but never got it fully done.
It's certainly a bug in my opinion that they're not consistent, but it'd be better to come up with patches than just file a bug, I know several people are aware of this, but it's just not filtered up to the top of anyone's todo list at any point, I don't think.
Thanks.
Sadly media check is broken if the media is created on OS X. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189345
And it doesn't even happen if a persistent overlay is created (silent bail on media check).
I need a sanity check. I'll float a replacement for both checkisomd5 and dm overlay to Martin Bříza.