On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 00:43 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 22:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 23:32 +0100, Jean François Martinez wrote: > >>> I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Linux installation. Last > >>> thing I would want is a distribution I am _testing_, that is Fedora 20 > >>> forces on me it will be my main installation and forces me to choose > >>> between installing Grub on the MBR or not at all. > >> > >> Why? "Not at all" is precisely the correct action for a grub2-based > >> distribution in this case. > >> > >> I think we should do grub2-mkconfig for such installs, though it's a bit > >> tricky to refactor anaconda's bootloader install code to do so. I might > >> have a shot at it if I get a spare minute, though. > > > > Well, hum, it doesn't look hard at all, in fact, at least a simple > > version. See attached patch (untested, but what could possibly go > > wrong?!). I'm not subscribed to anaconda-patches-list ATM, but CCing > > anaconda-devel-list to see what the anaconda devs think. I think it's > > reasonable to install a config file and device.map when 'skipping' > > grub2-bios bootloader install, especially given our standing advice to > > people who want to do chainload-style multi boot is "skip bootloader > > installation then setup configfile booting after install". > > There's an RFE bug floating around for this. I asked a while ago on grub-devel@ whether grub-mkconfig depended on grub-install being done first, and I got a kinda yesish answer that wasn't all that convincing. But the suggestion was to use 'grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sdX' before grub2-mkconfig. This causes all the parts of grub to be installed except the singular thing people object to, and is the sole reason why they say they don't want a bootloader installed - which is boot.img being written into the MBR. > > I've tested that combination and it's safe. So if the code were changed just that "no bootloader" simply means *adding* --grub-setup=/bin/true and doing everything else we already do, that'd be the easiest fix that helps the most people IMO. > > BTW I think device.map is deprecated (?). I dunno, it's in there for the regular grub2 install so I kept it for the 'non-install-install' I'm suggesting. bootloader.py is really falling-off-a-log-simple code, it wouldn't be at all difficult to implement just about any approach to this, AFAICS. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
