On 2009-02-04 at 3:25:37 -0500, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > Christoph Höger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> fedora has recently been tested (again) and compared against other >> distributions (Ubuntu and OpenSUSE) by c't, a german IT magazine from >> the heise publishing house. >> >> Among other criticisms one thing was really annoying: When a user >> installs fedora on a machine with windows installed (common use case) it >> detects that installation and offers to add it to grub. But installing >> fedora on a box with an already present linux distro installation will >> yield that installation removed from grub. >> >> I understand that the bootloader is a part of the distro and its >> configuration gets changed e.g. during kernel updates, but is there >> really only the answer to remove one distribution completely? >> Do we really want to support Windows as second OS more than OpenSUSE or >> Ubuntu (or CentOS, or Debian, or Gentoo, or ........) >> At least the anaconda team should consider printing a warning about one >> OS going to "be lost" during install and how to recover. >> >> Any thoughts on that? >> > > Patches welcome comes to mind. It's worth noting for anyone doing this work that in F10, grub is not really displayed anymore. I don't know if the timeout is changed from 0 if Windows is added to the grub.conf, but it probably should be (and any changes to add other Linux distributions to the grub conf should also reset the timeout from 0 as well). ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
