On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 18:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/04/2013 05:47 PM, Kévin Raymond wrote: > >>> From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such machines > >>> because nobody tests the bleeding edge Fedora kernels on such obsolete > >>> hardware. > >> > >> Could you provide more details? I have Fedora 18 running on several > >> 32bit machines and am wondering what you are referring to. > > > > From releng, I got the confirmation that some new computers does boot only UEFI > > OS by default. And we don't provide UEFI on the 32bit ISO. Therefor, it is not > > compatible. > Ah, OK - My 32bit machines all predate UEFI ;) > > [2 ca. 4 year old, still-inuse Atom-N270 netbooks and a 10years+ old > PIII, which serves as testing machine ;)] I doubt that's what the OP was talking about, as he mentioned "obsolete hardware". There was exactly one set of systems, ever, that used EFI-ish firmware but were 32-bit not 64-bit: the very early Intel Macs. We do not support those by policy. There's no practical reason to want to boot a 32-bit Fedora image as UEFI native - if you're doing it, it means you got something wrong. But people do get things wrong, and it was reasonable to stop labelling the 32-bit image as 'most compatible' to try and stop people getting this thing wrong. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
