Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:57:09PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik
<jreznik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> = Features/SyslinuxOption =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption
>
> Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
>
> This feature will make Syslinux an optional bootloader for Fedora, in
> kickstart and via a hidden Anaconda option. When used this way, it will
> replace grub2.
So, to summarize, this saves <= 6 MB of disk space, and <= 1 second of
boot time, at the cost of extra maintenance and QA burden in anaconda
and grubby?
I'd love to hear what anaconda developers and Fedora QA think about
this trade-off.
I really like it, tbh, for e.g. smallish virt machine images, where the
size of grub2 really is a bit excessive.
Is there perhaps a consensus what the long-term future will look
like?
In particular, is it impossible/plausible/probable that most
architectures will move to EFI, and if so, will virtualization also
move to EFI eventually?
It follows that we will have EFI on virt (*possibly* still with a CSM)
eventually, and in that case, syslinux in its current form would not be
an option on such machines. But in the near term, we'll still just have
BIOS in VMs, and this is beneficial there.
That would mean syslinux is not a long-term
option.
At least in its current form.
--
Peter