Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
>> = Features/SyslinuxOption =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption
>>
>> Feature owner(s):  Matthew Miller <mattdm at 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.
>
>
> 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?  That would mean syslinux is not a long-term
> option.  Or is the future in this area uncertain enough that there is
> a benefit in having more options readily available?

I think the benefit is for the cloud instances (of which there will be 
considerably more than hw-installs) that don't need the features or 
complexity of grub - not too mention all the deps it pulls in, iirc.

that's the benefit.

-sv