Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:17 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <j@xxxxxx> wrote:

For those who might be curious, the systems are Supermicro 6026TT-HTRF
machines with four nodes in 2U.  I have three, so twelve machines in
total.  The machines have X8DTT-HF+ motherboards.  I actually have older
hardware than that around and still in use (all Supermicro), but oddly
some of it actually has an EFI option.


Check out this beauty that I still run.

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)
# dmidecode
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
87 structures occupying 3232 bytes.
Table at 0x000F9920.

Handle 0xDA00, DMI type 218, 11 bytes
OEM-specific Type
   Header and Data:
      DA 0B 00 DA B2 00 17 00 0E 20 00

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
BIOS Information
   Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
   Version: A07
   Release Date: 04/25/2008
   Address: 0xF0000
   Runtime Size: 64 kB
   ROM Size: 1 MB
   Characteristics:
      ISA is supported
      PCI is supported
      PNP is supported
      BIOS is upgradeable
      BIOS shadowing is allowed
      ESCD support is available
      Boot from CD is supported
      Selectable boot is supported
      EDD is supported
      Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
      5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
      5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
      3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
      Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
      8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
      Serial services are supported (int 14h)
      Printer services are supported (int 17h)
      CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
      ACPI is supported
      USB legacy is supported
      LS-120 boot is supported
      BIOS boot specification is supported
      Function key-initiated network boot is supported


But I don't really expect Fedora Linux to support something that old. I fully understand that I may have to jump through some manual hoops to keep it running at this point. In fact, I do. I have this system customized to boot using syslinux with BLS support.
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