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?