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

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 6:06 PM Brian C. Lane <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:50:39PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:54 AM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >syslinux goes away entirely
> >
> > If the installation media used BIOS GRUB, syslinux could still go
> > away. What consideration has occurred to switch from syslinux to BIOS
> > GRUB for installation media? Is BIOS GRUB being deprecated? Or is it
> > being discontinued in Fedora?
>
> A bit, long time time ago. I *think* wwoods and I discussed this at a
> fudcon at one point but there were reasons not to do it. But since I can
> no longer remember them I'll take a look again :)
>
> But if Anaconda is going to drop BIOS installation support at some point
> in the near future there really is no point in making the effort.
>

It would be useful if we do indeed get a x86 BIOS SIG as Hans de Goede
proposed. I think Fedora Server and Fedora Cloud would be interested
in such a thing, given all the caveats right now with dropping BIOS
support for server-class hardware.


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