On 4/7/22 15:30, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > Anaconda is used for this purpose to make dual firmware supporting VM > images. Cloud edition does it, and it's also done within RHEL and > CentOS. > > I would sooner expect optical boot support to go away before BIOS > boot. But I only have anecdotes to go on. > >> >> 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. > > There have been two prior attempts to move to GPT by default (i.e. > drop MBR by default when legacy BIOS is detected), and due to firmware > bugs, it never progressed to any Fedora release. I can't guess what > percent of hardware in the Fedora community is BIOS vs UEFI, and it's > even harder to estimate what percent of BIOS hardware are affected by > the GPT bug. Can the disk be partitioned so that it is valid for *both* MBR and GPT? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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