Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com writes:
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:21 AM Jiri Konecny jkonecny@redhat.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
honestly, it looks to me like a hack which is required for the cloud images but shouldn't be used out of that. I don't like the solution much, it makes everything much more complicated especially for the "mbr/bios" and similar formats. I'm more inclined for the simplified current solution.
Also I'm thinking if it would be really that helpful. Users usually don't change on the installed system between UEFI and BIOS boot, do they?
It's mixed. Some do it inadvertently, including the case where USB boots use one mode and internal drive boot uses the other mode. And also the case where users go on a "push all the buttons" spree and turn on legacy.
Well, it won't actually boot both ways unless you've installed bootloaders for both paths - which we don't do for desktop/server use cases, only cloud-style use cases.
(Also, on systems with legacy CSM, enabling the legacy boot path doesn't typically turn off the non-legacy path - it just adds the legacy options as additional boot targets (either after or before the non-legacy ones).)
Be well, --Robbie