On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:34 -1000, David Cantrell wrote: > Perhaps, but my personal take on it is there is the do-I-care issue > and the technical issue. > > For me, I don't care what is on a user's HFS or DOS partition. Maybe > it's bootable, maybe it's not. But it's not our problem. Except when we set up bootloader config for the other OSes on the system, as we do in anaconda: http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/f10b-boot-config.png I wonder what happens if you try to install Fedora on a system that's already got Mac OS X and Windows dual-booting? Two "Other" entries, identical except for the partition number? > The technical issue is we can't really make the assumption that all > bootable HFS partitions on ppc systems are MacOS X. What? Why not? Unless I've seriously misunderstood this part of booty, that field is just a human-readable string that identifies the system type. Change it to "Mac OS" and we'll be right easily 95% of the time, and the rest will be owned by hackers who are obviously competent enough to know what HFS-based, non-Mac OS system they're dealing with. > I mean, it's > probably a safe guess, but it's not guaranteed. The same with DOS > partitions. We can't assume it's Windows. The only way to know for > sure what's on those filesystems is to dig down in to them and see > what will boot from them, and then that brings in a whole set of > knowledge that isn't really part of anaconda. ...which is why this is a patch to booty, not anaconda. If you want me to extend the patch to actually try to identify the OS *for sure*, with version numbers and everything, that's fine. But that seems like an awful lot of additional complexity to handle HFS-based systems that *aren't* OS X or NTFS/FAT-based systems that *aren't* Windows - especially when, once again, if we guess *wrong*, it's just an incorrect label that the the user can correct. I really think this is one of those lucky situations where we can guess right 95% of the time, and when we guess wrong, the failure is harmless and trivial to correct. Refusing to guess because of that 5% chance of failure seems like a cop-out. -w _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
