On Saturday, July 4, 2020 6:44:55 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:24:46PM -0000, ziba wrote: > > Fedora should absolutely CONTINUE supporting BIOS boot (sometimes wrongly > > labeled "legacy BIOS"). > > Yep, Fedora should continue supporting BIOS boot at least for the next > few years. This question will surely be revisited after the remaining > x86 CPU makers join Intel in formally droping BIOS support (and quite > possibly the 16-bit CPU modes needed to boot via BIOS!) > > And yes, "legacy BIOS" is an accurate term. It is an obelete, long > deprecated, and soon-to-be-retired system with insurmountable technical > limitations including a hard 2TB upper limit on drive sizes that we've > been running into for more than a decade.
There are still new systems built today that only support BIOS, and vendors providing systems factory-configured for BIOS boot on hardware that does support UEFI. There is no 2TB upper limit on drive sizes as a result of booting from BIOS. > (2TB SATA drives have been available since at least mid-2009. > Meanwhile, folks with hardware RAID controllers have been running into > this problem even longer) I don't know where you got this, but that's completely false. You can use GPT partition tables on systems with BIOS boot. Whoever told you otherwise is misinformed at best. > > BIOS will be cherished for decades to come! > > s/cherished/despised/ Why do you "despise" BIOS boot? > Fortunately, decades from now, BIOS systems will only exist in museums > and emulators. I highly doubt that, but time will tell. > > Fedora does not want to lose out in the huge BIOS based market. > > BIOS-based systems make up a miniscule minority of the current market. > Pretending otherwise is delusional, and delusions are no basis for > technical decisions. That's absolutely false, as demonstrated elsewhere in this thread. Pretending otherwise is delusional, and delusions are no basis for technical decisions. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
