On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:15 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
syslinux (really isolinux) is only used on installation media.
This comment from 2012 suggests we probably should have dropped
isolinux in favor of BIOS GRUB a while ago, but c'est la vie. I think
it's in scope to exchange syslinux for GRUB in the F37 cycle, pending
review of the effort required to do it.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html?thread=345621#cmt345621
Add this to the retrospective reading
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
And for status of optical media in Fedora (tl;dr is optical boot must
work for Everything and Workstation ISOs, but there is no requirement
to test them, ergo if someone tests and finds it doesn't work, it
blocks; if no one tests it, oops oh well!)
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/f36/blocking/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Drop_Optical_Media_Criterion
For what it's worth, the current xorriso command used to make most of
our ISO images (hybrid images that can boot most everything whether
PXE, Macs, UEFI or BIOS, USB stick or optical) is
xorrisofs -o /var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/boot.iso -isohybrid-mbr
/usr/share/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c
isolinux/boot.cat -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -no-emul-boot
-eltorito-alt-boot -e images/efiboot.img -no-emul-boot
-isohybrid-gpt-basdat -eltorito-alt-boot -e images/macboot.img
-no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-hfsplus -R -J -V
Fedora-WS-Live-36-20220407-n-0 -graft-points
isolinux=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/isolinux
images/pxeboot=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/pxeboot
LiveOS=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/LiveOS
EFI/BOOT=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/EFI/BOOT
images/efiboot.img=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/efiboot.img
images/macboot.img=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/images/macboot.img
LICENSE=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/LICENSE
Fedora-Legal-README.txt=/var/tmp/lmc-work-hrb6zq5j/Fedora-Legal-README.txt
There's a bit to unpack there...
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Chris Murphy