On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 at 13:34, Lubos Kocman via openSUSE Factory < factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
SUSE is evaluating drop of Legacy boot support, please let us know if you foresee any issues. Please be aware that SLES 16 / Leap 16 support requires x86_64-v2 so I personally believe that there won't be many cases where such a system would not support UEFI.
I wonder where exactly would such Legacy boot support be removed from? Is this about the installer(s) not offering the option anymore? grub2 install? grub support in general? initrds? Or something further down in userlevel, systemd, later time bootup? It's difficult to gauge how this would affect me. Not that my personal use of (nowadays Tumbleweed) should much influence your decision making, but I'm happily still running my full production setup, some 40 HP DL servers from Gen5 to Gen10 with around 250 VMs, exclusively with BIOS setup. Mostly because it's what I started with, and never had reason to switch. I'm not using the installers (well, every 5 years maybe), more cloning / rsyncing and adapting existing installs. PXE booting kernel + initrd out of tw repo mirrors. grub booting the hosts (and. standard dracut initrd). And running libvirt/kvm virtual machines with kernel (self-built) on the host (libvirt <kernel> option), no initrds, and unpartitioned root blockdevices (a real simplification). The outlook that I'll need to fit in UEFI partitions into all these systems, and find out how well the UEFI / secure boot support is in these different generations of HP servers, is ... giving be a bit creepy feeling right now :-) best regards Patrick