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.
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John M. Harris, Jr.