On 02/24/2015 05:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Similar restriction apply elsewhere. E.g. I have an older BIOS system which
for (at least to me) unknown reasons refuses to boot from chained/cascaded
grub partitions beyond some disk-limits.
Quite old,
It's a 2008 netbook, I am facing this issue with. It has Windows, Fedora
20, Fedora 21, Ubuntu and SuSE installed in parallel on ca. 12-15
partitions.
In more complex multiboot configurations (e.g. several different linux
distros, several releases of the same distro, several different
configurations of the same distro), other aspects come into play, which more
or less are personal preference, such as keeping an OSs' partitions
consecutively together, whether to share or not to share boot or swap
partitions etc.
Right and this cannot possibly be supported by Fedora absent an agreed
upon boot specification.
Why would you want to try supporting this?
An "Expert mode" with options to partition manually, an option to
manually specify the install location of a boot loader/partition and to
specify mount points would suffice this need.
But the converse applies: "A tool which doesn't suffice my needs, will not
be my choice and will loose me as a customer"
Yes, but it's a 60+ email thread and the people complaining about
Anaconda Manual Partitioning, especially the "custom isn't custom"
claim haven't produced any examples or bugs of what they want to do
that the installer won't allow.
This is no surprise to me. Most people (comprising me) don't do installs
on a regular basis.
All I can say, last time I performed a fresh install on a machine with
pre-configured Windows, back in Dec, I tried to use automated
partitioning but it failed (Sorry, I did not keep book about it).
I found myself resorting to manually resizing/moving partitions using
Windows and gparted from rescuecd, and later pre-partitioned it for
Fedora, again using rescuecd. Afterwards, installation went real problems.
A detail I recall on another machine was the Live-DVD-stuff having
failing miserably, because it ran out of memory and bombed out due to
Gnome's requirement on 3d. I ended up using the Xfce-DVD and
preconfiguring a swap partition.
Ralf
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