Idea for (kindof) USB based installation

POleszkiewicz

I believe it would be nice to add a new mode of installation:

Put /boot on USB/sdcard, put everything else on HDD/SSD/NVMe/SAN.

This way we would be able to:

Use any device as main disk (root FS) device, even if the server itself does not support booting from it
Avoid problems with dying media due to excessive overwrites

It should be relatively simple addition I believe and could have a lot of value for people working on older hardware (like HP DL < Gen9, booting from NVMe/SAS in passthrough mode) etc.

olivierlambert

Sadly, it's not that simple. Allowing to change the partition layout will add probably a lot of complexity to maintain. However, we are not against a contribution, then we could judge the risk on getting it upstream or not