support /boot in the root filesystem; i.e. no separate /boot

[dustymabe]

Whenever someone does manual partitioning and they don't add a separate /boot partition. They end up getting an error in anaconda: see this BZ.

I looked and I couldn't find a specific issue that addressed this but there is #876 which seems somewhat related but mostly focusing on atomicity of the filesystem I think.

Can we support /boot in the root filesystem? Of course, for efi systems there will always be the vFAT /boot/efi.

Note: This may be an issue that needs code work in Anaconda instead of in ostree.

[cgwalters]

This is mostly in #1404

[dustymabe]

This is mostly in #1404

Ah, cool. A PR. Now we can close this issue when it gets merged.

Quick question. That PR title says for uboot and syslinux. Does it also apply to grub2?

[vtolstov]

any progress for such think?

[clime]

Same question here.

[cgwalters]

I was thinking about this briefly, and it may simplify things to avoid copying the kernel/initramfs to /boot in the single partition scenario - there's no reason to do it! We can just point the bootloader configs at the canonical kernel state in /usr/lib/modules/$kver.

[akiernan]

We run w/o a separate /boot on U-Boot, obviously they just end up hardlinked anyway!