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

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On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 02:39:04PM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > - as I stated, there are offers to help with getting syslinux replaced
> >   with GRUB
> 
> More generally, I'm concerned that folks think this'll help a lot more
> than it actually will.  There's a tendency to think in terms of packages
> - they're contained units and therefore convenient to reason about.  But
> just being in a container is not an indication of complexity or size.
> The obligatory example of this that is (I hope) generally understood is
> the kernel.  One source package, wildly different complexity than
> anything else - to the point where it's more meaningful to talk about
> the workflows enabled, subsystems, etc. than the rpms themselves.  I've
> mentioned this upthread as well, but this is the nature of the problem:
> it's not about *packages*, it's about *use case*.
> 

Right, not saying this is a viable long-term solution. But having
everything being GRUB, *plus* using protective MBR, would allow us to
not force people to reinstall when we finally kill off legacy BIOS.

* yes, we still need to figure out how to convert existing systems to
* protective MBR plus GPT, but at least we won't be creating new legacy
* installs that will require reinstallation

Best,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim
identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2

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