Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

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On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:00:00 AM MST Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
> 
> 
> > Given Hans proposal [1] introduced systemd/grub2/Gnome upstream
> > changes it beg the question if now would not be the time to stop
> > supporting booting in legacy bios mode and move to uefi only supported
> > boot which has been available on any common intel based x86 platform
> > since atleast 2005.
> 
> 
> Even for virtualization?  Not sure if that can be done.

It's possible, and actually surprisingly simple, but not in virtualization 
hosts based on RHEL7. I'm not sure about RHEL8, but in Fedora, you can install 
edk2-ovmf, if it's not already installed, to get UEFI support.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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