Hardware Support
Fedora Minimal by default works well with UEFI speaking bootloaders. Disks are partitioned with GPT.
Specific
Some platforms require specific customizations to boot or work well.
Raspberry Pi 3
The Raspberry Pi 3 does not understand the default GPT disk layouts that Fedora Minimal uses. You can use the following partition customization to build an image that supports it.
[customizations.disk]
type = "dos"Note that this changes the partition table to the DOS format which has implications for any further partitioning you might want to do.
Raspberry Pi 5
The Raspberry Pi 5 does not yet have good upstream support in the kernel. This means that in general Fedora variants don’t work on it, or work partially. There are kernels available in COPR which have additional potential patches which aren’t yet available in the kernels Fedora uses. While these won’t make everything work, more things will work.
With the following blueprint to enable the repository for updates after the system has booted.
[[customizations.repositories]]
id = "copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:pbrobinson:a64-kernel"
name = "Copr repo for a64-kernel owned by pbrobinson"
baseurls = ["https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/pbrobinson/a64-kernel/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/"]
enabled = trueAnd the following build command to use the repository for system build. Note the single quotes around the repository URL to prevent shell expansion of variables.
$ sudo image-builder build --extra-repo 'https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/pbrobinson/a64-kernel/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/' minimal-raw-zst
# ...You get a Fedora Minimal with the kernel and patches from the COPR repository which gives you the highest chance of the most things working. If you’re only testing hardware bringup then the blueprint part can be skipped but you won’t get updates to the kernel on the system after it has booted.
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