Re: F37 proposal: BIOS boot.iso with GRUB2 (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 1:21 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 10:27 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BIOSBootISOWithGrub2
> >
> > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
> > process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
> > community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
> > by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
> >
> > == Summary ==
> > Modify [https://github.com/weldr/lorax/tree/master/share/templates.d/99-generic
> > lorax-generic-templates] to use GRUB2 when booting the boot.iso on
> > BIOS systems, instead of syslinux. Upstream syslinux development is
> > dead, and the Fedora maintainer would like to drop the package from
> > the distribution. GRUB2 works as a replacement in most situations and
> > continues to have upstream support.
>
> So aside from my comment on the PR, my other note: what about live
> images? Don't those use syslinux for BIOS boot too? There doesn't seem
> to be any benefit in switching to grub2 only for boot.iso / DVD ISO if
> we have to keep maintaining syslinux for live images. Or is the idea
> that we'd drop BIOS boot support entirely from live images and people
> who want to do BIOS installs are required to use netinst/DVD images?

Those templates should affect live media too, since I think we use the
same lorax templates for both.



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