Re: Announcing the Fedora BIOS boot SIG

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On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 12:18 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Now that FESCo has decided (1) that Fedora will keep supporting BIOS
> booting, the people working on Fedora's bootloader stack will need
> help from the Fedora community to keep Fedora booting on systems which
> require Legacy BIOS to boot.
> 
> To help with this the Fedora BIOS boot SIG (special interest group) has
> been formed. The main goal of this SIG are to help the Fedora bootloader
> people by:
> 
> 1) Doing regular testing of nightly Fedora N + 1 composes on hardware
> which only supports BIOS booting

Note, we already do automated a-lot-more-than-nightly testing of ISOs
on VMs that only support BIOS booting (qemu without UEFI). This won't
help with the specific case of real-world systems whose firmware can't
handle GPT-labeled disks, or similar things, but we will at least
notice very quickly if BIOS boot just breaks entirely.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net

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