Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[drago01]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't
>>>>> practical.
>>>>
>>>> Well not practical maybe ... impossible no.
>>>> In fact making an isolated image using F17 components and installer to
>>>> use it to install F18 should work. SB would be an issue though because
>>>> the old anaconda does not know anything about it,
>>>
>>> I'm fairly sure the new anaconda doesn't know about Secure Boot either.
>>> There's really no reason it would have to.  All of that is handled by
>>> shim, grub2, and the kernel.
>>
>> I'd assume it has to know when to install shim and when not? (No idea
>> have not cheched the code).
>
> Shim is installed on all EFI machines afaik.  So anaconda knows about
> EFI vs. BIOS perhaps, but not about Secure Boot.

OK.