On Friday, 08 April 2022 at 04:37, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 10:05 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Clover is described here: > > > https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader > > > > This is interesting. Seems like considerable up-front work, but a much > > cleaner possible future than completely dual paths. > > On my (still countably) infinite TODO list I had > an item on it to spend more time looking at > Clover to be able to boot (in UEFI mode) one > of my older BIOS only Core 2 duo quad systems > that I had picked up for pennies on the dollar > at a local surplus store. At this point it is a > question of whether I will find the time to do > so or the system itself will finally die. Since > the original placement (on my list), the Clover > devs have substantially improved it to the > point that a lot of the rough edges have been > mitigated, although given all the various > implementations of BIOS's there are still > going to be edge cased (just as there are > still rough edges with UEFI, especially the > earliest implementations).
I'd be willing to lend a hand to adapting Clover on Fedora and testing booting with it on my 12yo BIOS-only Intel Atom machine. > > Are there docs on this somewhere other than the Arch wiki? (Which, as usual, > > is very helpful!) -- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Clover > > As is typically the case, the Arch wiki is better > than almost all other available docs. Indeed. How do they do it? ;) Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
