Re: Announcing the Fedora BIOS boot SIG
Hi,
On 5/23/22 08:41, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 12:18 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Now that FESCo has decided (1) that Fedora will keep supporting BIOS
> booting, the people working on Fedora's bootloader stack will need
> help from the Fedora community to keep Fedora booting on systems which
> require Legacy BIOS to boot.
>
> To help with this the Fedora BIOS boot SIG (special interest group) has
> been formed. The main goal of this SIG are to help the Fedora bootloader
> people by:
>
> 1) Doing regular testing of nightly Fedora N + 1 composes on hardware
> which only supports BIOS booting
Note, we already do automated a-lot-more-than-nightly testing of ISOs
on VMs that only support BIOS booting (qemu without UEFI). This won't
help with the specific case of real-world systems whose firmware can't
handle GPT-labeled disks, or similar things, but we will at least
notice very quickly if BIOS boot just breaks entirely.
That is good to know, thanks.
If things do break, please Cc: biosboot-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
on any bugs filed.
Regards,
Hans