Hi folks. We've had a discussion going for a few months now over on
test@ about release criteria for dual/multi-booting with other Linux
installations. I actually thought this discussion had made it here to
a-d-l at some point, but it seems I was mistaken in that.
So I mistakenly proposed an F21 Final criterion requiring dual-boot with
Fedora to work (on the false assumption everyone was already working
under that expectation already). I'm withdrawing it as a proposal for
F21, but I think it makes sense for F22, so I'm keeping it as a live
proposal, and I'll re-post it here:
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When installing to a system containing an existing installation of
the same Fedora release or either of the two previous releases,
the installer must configure the new installation's bootloader such that
it can successfully boot the existing installation.
[Footnote] Typical configurations only: This criterion applies only to
installations (both existing and new) using default or very common
storage and bootloader configurations.
[Footnote] Platforms: This criterion applies to all supported
configurations described in
[[Fedora_22_Alpha_Release_Criteria#Release-blocking_images_must_boot|the
Alpha criteria]], but does not apply to mixed configurations, e.g. it
does not require that a UEFI native installation of one Fedora release
be able to configure its bootloader to boot a BIOS native installation
of another Fedora release.
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What do folks think about that as an F22 Final criterion? In the test@
discussion there's a rather broader proposal from cmurf which covers
dual booting with other distros and is less restrictive as to the
supported configurations, but I thought it might be easier to get
consensus for something more restricted at least as a starting point.
--
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Hi Adam and Anaconda Development list
I
multiboot Fedora21 Vanilla, a Fedora21 Remix, Centos7, and Fedora20 as
well windows 8.1 via several disks. From what I understand, multi-boot
to me is a grub issue. I have one Fedora as my system boot, and I
regularly (once a week, or so, via crontab) recreate the master grub.cfg
If
that is the gist of the discussion. My setup has one Fedora per disk,
though I have at times had two, or the windows/Fedora mix.
Is
the suggestion that one disk could have multiple Fedora distributions,
and that grub/os-prober should be able to create the boot menu?
In my recent installation of Fedora21-beta-2, the grub.cfg produced had noted all the operating systems on my computer.
Ohh yes, My computer bios is non uefi. Does that make a difference?
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
