On 03/13/2013 05:38 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Note: $BOOT should be considered shared among all OS installations >>> of a system. Instead of maintaining one $BOOT per installed OS (as >>> /boot was traditionally handled), all installed OS share the same >>> place to drop in their boot-time configuration. >> >> This is really just begging on your knees for the various distros to >> stomp on each others bootloaders, or alternatively -- and just as badly >> -- not update the bootloaders at all. > > They already do this now. > >> It is way more robust to let each distribution have its /boot and worry >> about its own bootloader. > > This is what we have today. It's not robust. > It is quite robust if you disregard each and every distro trying to force you to install the bootloader in the MBR, which is yet another horrible practice. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
