-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ben Boeckel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > > This may be more for grub upstream, but what if grub could create a menu > given different files to work with. Fedora installs /boot/grub/fedora.lst, > OpenSuSE installs opensuse.lst, and so on. This way multi-boot systems can > handle as many distros as needed/wanted and not have them step on each > other fighting for control of menu.lst and its formatting. Then menu.lst > could be used for common things (such as which to make the default, > timeout, splash, and other settings). Then create a tool to manage the > common file settings. It would only require the user to make sure that > /boot is large enough for kernels and the same for all distros. I think > this would be an easier solution than figuring out a common format for all > distros to use and making sure that they don't step on each others' toes. > > - --Ben > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmKdXYACgkQiPi+MRHG3qR+YQCgqzSjxBaP+lepVfb9MdJ/onCZ > 28YAn054eWLPy5p101hx4b/RKjKxvj1z > =kyMZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Is this getting drowned out, ignored, or is there something I'm missing that makes it a bad idea? - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmPPaYACgkQiPi+MRHG3qSDQACgk7+9SfXiwftVC9pJpg7MekbF WoAAniaomWdsU7oYFE6Kre30SIQsNHf3 =3mjV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
