The idea is that if a machine defaults to “legacy boot,” meaning a BIOS-style boot, then use that to load U-Boot, which then provides a software emulation of UEFI so that the startup process can be simplified by the removal of BIOS support.
Sounds more like the illusion of simplicity
Sounds like more complexity for the legacy use case in return for less complexity in the expected use case. Probably a fair trade-off.
I think they’re trying to simplify the exposed interfaces simplifying everyone else’s job at the expense of making a more complex implementation.
It’s 2023. By this time I’m fine if BIOS boot was removed completely.
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Qubes OS
Not really related to what Red Hat is doing with their OS.
Why not?
Qubes OS use Fedora for dom0.
Are there any machines in use anymore that don’t support UEFI? When did it become standard? Something like 2012?
At my company, we have around 400,000 servers in production. When we last surveyed them, we found several thousand over 12 years old, with the oldest at 17 years. And that wasn’t counting our lab and admin servers which could run even older because they’re often repurposed from prod decomms.
We had a huge internal effort to virtualize their loads, but in the end, only about 15% were transferred just due to the sheer number of hidden edge cases that kept turning up.
How many of them would ever run an OS released in 2023?
All of them. Corp directive (now) is that hosts must be updated or reimaged every 90 days.
I have a bunch of Intel motherboards circa 2015 that “support” UEFI as in it will boot windows but not any other payload.
I read it as bootlicker at first
That too
Fuck Redhat.
We were just about to deploy a big new environment with RHEL servers and have since got the OK to deploy Ubuntu instead.
Better Policies. Better Ingredients. Cannonical.
Better drivers.
The last time I actually tried anything with Redhat I was trying to build a file server with RHEL v6.8 on a circa 2014 Dell. Absolutely zero support for the drive controllers. It felt like installing Linux in the mid-1990’s. I gave up in frustration after two days and gave Ubuntu 16.04 LTS a try. As far as I know, that server’s still chugging away with 98 terabytes of storage at that office.
Yeah we still have quite a few 16 LTS in our Mesos cluster.
Proprietary app repo cannonical is better?
Is that like a live action Carmen Sandiego?
What if she only stole… from thieves?
So, they want something even worse than GRUB2?
Whatever happened to RedBoot?
Can some independently wealthy developer please get this job and make a beautifully sabotaged bootloader?
