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

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On Thursday, 07 April 2022 at 08:20, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > On the cloud side, it's been very difficult to articulate any benefits
> > for supporting UEFI when the majority of the consumers of Fedora Cloud
> > don't have any pressing need to do it and things like hibernation and
> > snapshotting are non-functional. Last year, I changed Fedora Cloud to
> > hybrid boot[6] so that our image artifacts support both boot modes.
> 
> Any chance for regular anaconda installs doing a hybrid boot setup too?
> 
> The installed systems will look pretty much the same (gpt with both
> bios-boot and efi-esp partition) no matter how they where installed,
> and it'll be trivial to switch from BIOS to UEFI without reinstalling
> the system.
> 
> We can fade out some stuff already (mbr support), and painless switching
> to UEFI for systems which where installed in BIOS mode for whatever
> reason should also help UEFI adaption.

Now that'd be awesome and likely the best way forward, if feasible.

Regards,
Dominik
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