Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Wed Jan 23 20:23:42 UTC 2013


On Wed, 23.01.13 13:17, Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) wrote:

> > The Syslinux bootloader has been part of Fedora for over a decade.
> > It's been well-tested as the loader for the installer, but we've
> > always used something else on the installed OS. Newer versions of
> > Syslinux (in the form of a version called Extlinux) can boot from
> > ext2/3/4 or from btrfs.
> 
> Two small things to note: 
> 
> a) I assume we aren't going to be adding secure boot support to it?

secure boot is an EFI think. syslinux doesn't do EFI boots (at least not
in any stable version).

Lennart

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