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

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On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:21:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson 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

The PR includes the same changes for the live iso templates, so they
will also use GRUB2 :)

Brian

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
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