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Asahi Linux installer
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feature: drop a volume and partition manifest in the Asahi APFS system volume #296

Closed PaulCharlton closed 3 months ago

PaulCharlton commented 3 months ago

feature: drop a volume and partition manifest in the Asahi APFS system volume

preferably a json or yaml file containing partition /dev/diskNsN could be dropped into the Asahi APFS system volume at something like /.AsahiStorageManifest

This will help with uninstalling without hokey heuristics and help avoid damage to partitions not intended to be managed by Asahi lifecycle and related housekeeping.

The partition subtree in installer_data.json is a good start, and perhaps these could be conformed with each other.

Also helps with affirmative removal of Asahi related entries from the iBootSystemContainer when Asahi is uninstalled

PaulCharlton commented 3 months ago

also helps when there are multiple installations of Asahi on the same Mac hardware.

marcan commented 3 months ago

This will help with uninstalling without hokey heuristics and help avoid damage to partitions not intended to be managed by Asahi lifecycle and related housekeeping.

The heuristics are necessary once we support installing with customizable storage layouts via a ramdisk installer boot, since at that point the installer will not be aware of the eventual disk layout since that process complete.