On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:15 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > syslinux (really isolinux) is only used on installation media. > > This comment from 2012 suggests we probably should have dropped > isolinux in favor of BIOS GRUB a while ago, but c'est la vie. I think > it's in scope to exchange syslinux for GRUB in the F37 cycle, pending > review of the effort required to do it. > https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html?thread=345621#cmt345621 Add this to the retrospective reading https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html And for status of optical media in Fedora (tl;dr is optical boot must work for Everything and Workstation ISOs, but there is no requirement to test them, ergo if someone tests and finds it doesn't work, it blocks; if no one tests it, oops oh well!) https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/f36/blocking/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Drop_Optical_Media_Criterion For what it's worth, the current xorriso command used to make most of our ISO images (hybrid images that can boot most everything whether PXE, Macs, UEFI or BIOS, USB stick or optical) is xorrisofs -o /var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/boot.iso -isohybrid-mbr /usr/share/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -no-emul-boot -eltorito-alt-boot -e images/efiboot.img -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-basdat -eltorito-alt-boot -e images/macboot.img -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-hfsplus -R -J -V Fedora-WS-Live-36-20220407-n-0 -graft-points isolinux=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/isolinux images/pxeboot=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/pxeboot LiveOS=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/LiveOS EFI/BOOT=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/EFI/BOOT images/efiboot.img=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/efiboot.img images/macboot.img=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/macboot.img LICENSE=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/LICENSE Fedora-Legal-README.txt=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/Fedora-Legal-README.txt There's a bit to unpack there... -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
