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

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On 4/5/22 13:38, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel
> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>
>>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI -
>>> repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall.  As a result, we
>>> don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new
>>> installations.
>>
>> This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is
>> no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is
>> running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be
>> something of a headache.
>>
>> Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space
>> for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some
>> other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting?
>>
> 
> In Fedora Linux default partitioning for all but Server, it is
> possible to reconfigure existing systems to UEFI. Fedora Server is
> screwed because they use XFS and you cannot shrink an XFS volume.

Time to get the XFS developers to support shrinking?

-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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