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

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I frequently use BIOS-only machines which don't have a UEFI boot option
- and one of those machines is indeed running Fedora! Certainly, I
understand that there are better ways of booting systems now, but for
the time being BIOS is still very important.

If the installation media can not install onto BIOS-only machines yet
all the bootloader stages support BIOS, then there will be an awkward
stage where some existing Fedora installations can be upgraded, but if
anything goes wrong it'd be impossible to reinstall them! The lack of a
BIOS installer as a fallback would make running Fedora on BIOS-only
machines risky enough that it seems to me as no better than removing
support entirely. Could I missing something here?

Also, one thing that I would be greatly reassured by is a date for
removal of BIOS support entirely. This would at least give confidence
that is worth installing Fedora on these machines for use in a limited,
but known, duration, rather than looking at alternative distributions
now.
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