I'm not a Fedora developer, just a long time interested user, so take this for what it's worth. I'd like to suggest an alternative approach to the BIOS boot (and potentially other similar boot issues), or at least suggest that this approach be discussed. Basically, I suggest that Fedora stop worrying about BIOS boot or other "weird" boot configurations. Instead, provide a truly manual installation path where all boot and storage configuration is the responsibility of the user. This would include: * Installing and configuring the boot loader. * Updating the boot loader configuration when new kernels are installed (although anyone who desires should obviously be free to contribute packages that automate this for particular boot loaders). * All storage configuration - creating partitions, RAID devices, logical volumes, etc. (I.e. the Fedora wouldn't perform any sort of discovery of storage devices; the user would be responsible for selecting devices that already exist in /proc/partitions.) * Booting *something* that can run the Fedora installer. AFAIK, it's still possible to skip boot loader installation during Fedora installation, and the live media installation path exists, so I believe that the main work here would be to package the installer and its associated runtimes, libraries, etc. into some sort of self- contained package that is as independent as possible from the OS on which it is running. Not only would this provide a path for BIOS boot, and similar issues, but it would also support other complex configurations. (I can't even count the number of Anaconda crashes I had back in the day with LVM on MD-RAID.) As I said, I'm not a Fedora developer, but I see this approach as potentially eliminating a lot of work and increasing Fedora's "flexibility" over the long term. OK, now tear this apart. :-) -- ======================================================================== Google Where SkyNet meets Idiocracy ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ 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
