On 2012-12-02 18:12 (GMT-0500) Kevin Fenzi composed:
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:32:20 -0500 Felix Miata wrote:
Changing the boot track without permission is rude, particularly since it doesn't bother to report it will obliterate what is already there present. Fedora ought to be able to be put where the user wants it, on a partition prepared as the user wants it prepared, without any bootloader if that's what the user wants, and without writing anything to any partition table when it's unnecessary and unwanted due to all partitioning having been done in advance (see: Mandriva/Mageia: cmdline option "readonly=1" results in only "partitioning" to allow selection of mount points for existing partitions).
How can anaconda know all that?
You mean besides offering a cmdline option to tell Anaconda don't touch any partition tables?
If you are dual booting a bunch of OSes, don't you already have to manually decide how you want things to chainload and update? I think a default of MBR with an option to not do
I think MBR _default_ is inappropriate _every_ time Anaconda finds itself faced with a multiboot system. In these cases presuming one wants the existing bootloading configuation replaced is inane.
What to do about bootloader should be prominent and early. YaST gets the idea: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/yast2-is-exp.png (6 years ago).
anything seems reasonable... how does the 'don't do anything with bootloaders' not meet your needs?
It needs to be put where it can be found. "It never presented an opportunity to discuss the bootloader." http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-December/111977.html
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