On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:29 PM Alek Paunov <alex(a)declera.com> wrote:
On 2020-06-30 14:34, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> Share your thoughts and comments on how such move might affect you so
> feedback can be collected for the future on why such a change might be
> bad, how it might affect the distribution and scope of such change can
> be determined for potential system wide proposal.
>
Just in case if someone is not aware: syslinux (pxe, ext) shipped with
Fedora is in very good state - form about 2016 I am using the package
I suppose "very good state" is a relative term, upstream hasn't seen a
release since 2016 so is essentially "unmaintained", not sure it
supports secure boot, probably has a bunch of CVEs (see point about
maintenance). I think it only lives on in Fedora is because I think
it's used for some (.iso?) install method, AFIACT it's eventually
glued back together when it fails to build and is generally ignored.
> for all my booting needs (grub2 is too complex for me):
>
> * PXE/Legacy,UEFI
> * Physical (partition) Legacy, ESP-UEFI
> * VM Legacy - for VMs (and USB sticks) usually it is not even needed
> to partition the VM disk, just extlinux the VM FS volume.
> I do not tried VM/UEFI so far.
>
> so (in my experience) any instance will have easy switchable
> UEFI/Non-UEFI boot option even if the other bootloaders discontinue
> legacy mode support.
>
> I do not know if syslinux/extlinux have support in Anaconda, since I am
> not using Anaconda for my imaging needs.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Alek
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