Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, 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? virtualization will support EFI, but certainly not require

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SyslinuxOption = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org This feature will make Syslinux an optional bootloader for Fedora, in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SyslinuxOption = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org This feature will make

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz said: 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? Well, there's already code somewhere in Fedora that supports syslinux as a boot loader, as

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:57:09PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SyslinuxOption = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org This

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:48:18PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz said: 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? Well, there's already

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 18:57 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SyslinuxOption = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org This

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:30:09 + Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SyslinuxOption = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org This feature will make Syslinux an optional bootloader for Fedora, in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 23.01.13 13:17, Kevin Fenzi (ke...@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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:17:12PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: a) I assume we aren't going to be adding secure boot support to it? Right -- explicitly out of scope for this. Could be a future feature but we don't need it now and certainly wouldn't want to make it a feature blocker. b) It might