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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
