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 code somewhere in Fedora that supports syslinux as > a boot loader, as all the install and live images use it. It is also > the solution for PXE booting (although I don't think there are any tools > that handle PXE configuration). Wouldn't it make sense to unify all the > boot loader handling code?
It pretty much already is - installation is handled by anaconda, and so that part of it lives there, and upgrades live in grubby, which handles a great many formats, including extlinux already. -- Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel