On 2/15/25 6:24 AM, Thorsten Kukuk via openSUSE Factory wrote:
On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@gmail.com> wrote:
Look at it from a COST/BENEFIT analysis.
How much does is cost SUSE to retain BIOS boot? How much benefit does SUSE gain by driving customers heavily invested in legacy hardware to some other vendor that will support them?
The costs for keeping legacy BIOS support are very high, It's doubling the efford. Currently EFI support is restricted to what legacy BIOS can do. As a result, everything has to be implemented into the bootloader. Look at how fat grub2 is, how many patches it has and what all is not possible with it, which are nobrainers if you use systemd-boot or grub2-BLS, so pure UEFI bootloaders. There are meanwhile many features which are not available with legacy boot.
Does systemd-boot support booting from a read-only snapshot like grub does ? -- Regards, Joe