On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:48:18PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxx> said:
> > So, to summarize, this saves <= 6 MB of disk space, and <= 1 second of
> > boot time, at the cost of extra maintenance and QA burden in anaconda
> > and grubby?
>
> Well, there's already code somewhere in Fedora that supports syslinux as
> a boot loader, as all the install and live images use it. It is also
> the solution for PXE booting (although I don't think there are any tools
> that handle PXE configuration). Wouldn't it make sense to unify all the
> boot loader handling code?
It pretty much already is - installation is handled by anaconda, and so
that part of it lives there, and upgrades live in grubby, which handles
a great many formats, including extlinux already.
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Peter
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