EL8/EL9 SELinux disable handling

I just updated the EL8 installers to change the method of SELinux disabling for AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 8. With EL9 for AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 9, they deprecated the old run time disabling of SELinux, so the only way to disable SELinux is by adding selinux=0 to Kernel GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub and rebuilding grub.cfg and rebooting server.

Initially, I set up installers to do that just for EL9 installs - keeping EL8 installs to keep old run time method of disabling SELinux. But seems Linux Kernel 6.4 will also deprecate SELinux runtime disabling methods as well. So the same situation can occur if you use EL8 operating system and one day decide to upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.4. So might as well sort this out now and update the EL8 installers to apply the same method as EL9 routine now

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From DEPRECATE runtime disable

So starting from today, any EL8 beta installions that detect that SELinux is still enabled on AlmaLinux 8 or Rocky Linux 8, will be greeted with similar messages below.

If you have a non-EFI setup for /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, you'll see:

Code (Text):

Detected SELinux NOT disabled for EL8
Adding selinux=0 to Kernel GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.auto nomodeset console=tty0 selinux=0"
Regenerating GRUB2 configuration
installing grub2-tools
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Added selinux=0 to Kernel GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub to disable SELinux
This is the right way to disable SELinux in future as other run-time methods deprecated
If you intend to use own custom Linux Kernels i.e. ELRepo, ensure you have selinux=0 set
Please reboot system to disable SELinux then install Centmin Mod

If you have a EFI setup for /boot/efi/EFI/almalinux/grub.cfg, you'll see:

Code (Text):

Detected SELinux NOT disabled for EL8
Adding selinux=0 to Kernel GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.auto nomodeset console=tty0 selinux=0"
Regenerating GRUB2 configuration
installing grub2-tools
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/almalinux/grub.cfg
Added selinux=0 to Kernel GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub to disable SELinux
This is the right way to disable SELinux in future as other run-time methods deprecated
If you intend to use own custom Linux Kernels i.e. ELRepo, ensure you have selinux=0 set
Please reboot system to disable SELinux then install Centmin Mod

If you use Rocky Linu with EFI, it will be at /boot/efi/EFI/rocky/grub.cfg