Re: Multibooting UX, how well it ought to work

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 03:11:08PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Another approach I took was refusing the premise we even need OS X boot entries in GRUB, so why not just disable os-prober on Macs, and then the four broken OS X options won't even appear. Instead the user can use the built-in firmware boot manager to boot either Fedora or OS X. Maybe there's some legitimate concern some users won't know how to activate this boot manager using the option key at the startup chime? This RFE was likewise proposed a while ago, changed to something else, neither proposal going forward, and then being close without action.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982847
> 
> The best plan is probably to figure out how to extend the boot loader 
> spec appropriately, add support for it to grub and gut os-prober 
> entirely.

While not quite related to OS X, I followed up to this here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2014-July/msg00002.html
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