On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't >>>> practical. >>> >>> Well not practical maybe ... impossible no. >>> In fact making an isolated image using F17 components and installer to >>> use it to install F18 should work. SB would be an issue though because >>> the old anaconda does not know anything about it, >> >> I'm fairly sure the new anaconda doesn't know about Secure Boot either. >> There's really no reason it would have to. All of that is handled by >> shim, grub2, and the kernel. > > I'd assume it has to know when to install shim and when not? (No idea > have not cheched the code). Shim is installed on all EFI machines afaik. So anaconda knows about EFI vs. BIOS perhaps, but not about Secure Boot. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
