[syslinux] Fedora 37 release notes

William R. Somsky somsky at uw.edu
Tue Jan 3 11:41:44 PST 2023


Do they have some sort of interpreter available for grub2?
The equivalent of the lua of syslinux?  Something that will
take a typed command line and use it to create the needed
URL for fetching a CGI generated kickstart file?

- WRSomsky

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 11:37:38AM -0800, solarflow99 wrote:
> sounds like syslinux is deprecated, other distros will probably follow.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 11:03 AM William R. Somsky <somsky at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> > That sounds like a pain.  I've been using syslinux w/ the lua interpreter
> > to build a multi-version install key for work that allows a short command
> > line to give all the needed details for a scripted install.  Hopefully
> > that will still function... :-/
> >
> > - WRSomsky
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 10:56:43PM -0800, solarflow99 via Syslinux wrote:
> > > FYI,
> > >
> > > *In previous Fedora releases, the minimal installer image (boot.iso) used
> > > the syslinux bootloader when booting on systems using BIOS firmware,
> > while
> > > on UEFI systems GRUB2 is used. However, the syslinux project is no longer
> > > being developed upstream. Therefore, starting with Fedora 37, boot.iso
> > > images will use GRUB2 on both BIOS and UEFI-based systems.*
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Dr. William R. Somsky           	                   somsky at uw.edu
Department of Physics, Box 351560		    B217 Phys-Astro Bldg
Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560		    206-616-2954


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