On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:19 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 08:48:19AM -0400, James Laska wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > We (fedora-qa) received a request for a test day around anaconda and > > dual-booting. I'm not sure if there is interest on the development side > > for attending and addressing issues found during such an event. Also, I > > think we'll probably need to clarify the exposure areas related to > > dual-boot scenarios. > > > > So my questions for the list ... > > > > 1. Is there interest in hosting/attending a Fedora 15 test day > > around installer dual-boot? > > 2. What areas of the installer are impacted by the presence of > > other operating systems (installing bootloader, partition > > detection/selection, partition types (ntfs, xfs...) etc...)? > > Dual booting with other Linux distributions is an issue. I've looked > into it a bit and one major problem we are going to run into is that > some distributions are now using grub2 instead of grub. That makes > building the correct bootloader config much harder. > > In the past I have handled this manually, using a large shared /boot and > manually editing my entries. I think we can do a better job of > supporting dual boot with the same bootloader, but really don't have any > good ideas as to how to handle dual boot with things like Ubuntu. > > Another issue I have seen is the sharing of swap space, which can be a > problem if hibernate is used. Sorry Brian, your response got lost in my reader. Am I correct in summarizing that having such an event would be good, only if we had a strategy for correctly identifying all other installed operating systems? Would a test day be helpful to outline and test dual-boot scenarios and report on how the Fedora installer handles such situations? Or would this be better saved for when dual-boot handling is prioritized? Thanks, James
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