Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't
>>>> practical.
>>>
>>> Well not practical maybe ... impossible no.
>>> In fact making an isolated image using F17 components and installer to
>>> use it to install F18 should work. SB would be an issue though because
>>> the old anaconda does not know anything about it,
>>
>> I'm fairly sure the new anaconda doesn't know about Secure Boot either.
>> There's really no reason it would have to.  All of that is handled by
>> shim, grub2, and the kernel.
>
> I'd assume it has to know when to install shim and when not? (No idea
> have not cheched the code).

Shim is installed on all EFI machines afaik.  So anaconda knows about
EFI vs. BIOS perhaps, but not about Secure Boot.

josh