Am 14.02.25 um 13:34 schrieb Lubos Kocman via openSUSE Factory:
Hello openSUSE!
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.
Ok, first with my (pretty big) Customer/partner hat on (I know this is not your part, but you can forward this directly to AJ ;-): azure gen1 VMs are a thing. They boot without UEFI. And our operations team is stupid enough to do OS upgrades without installing new VMs but by exchanging the VM's block device.
I was a bit concerned about virt scenarios, we should ensure that uefi is the default for new VMs as it seems to be legacy boot now.
Azure Gen1 is bios boot, azure Gen2 is UEFI.
If you have any concerns, please share them in code-o-o https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/194
I'll make sure that product management gets to see it. All feedback is highly welcome.
Has anybody considered the upgrade path from 15.x to 16.x? (I have migrated the server in my basement from legacy to UEFI boot without reinstalling end of last year, but it was nothing I would recommend to anyone *and* it included upgrading the root storage device from SATA to NVME and thus the data had to be copied over anyway *and* it was easy to add an additional EFI System Partition to the new drive *and* it is an LVM based installation, which means that the partition numbering etc. is pretty meaningless anyway) On a technical note: I hope it will be implemented in a way so that users not wanting to switch to UEFI can still set something like "LOADER_TYPE=none" in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader and just use something like extlinux to boot their system. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman