On 01/02/2014 11:32 PM, 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. > > In addition it didn't detect my other Linux installation so at first boot I > was only able to choose between Fedora 20 and Fedora 20. Fortunately running > grub-install fixed it (ie this time my other installations were detected). > Sort of. First of all because Fedora 20, ie a ditribution I was _testing_ > was now the default and second of all because every time I upgrade the kernel > of my _main_ distribution I am supposed to reboot on F20 and run > grub-install. Great. Nothing I can't fix but your average Ubuntu or Suse > user will just cancel installation as soon he notices F20 is going to force > itself on his MBR. And if the road is a one way one between Fedora and > Ubintu then it is doomed. > That's the reason we came up with http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ and even have a patch for grub2 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/tree/0460-blscfg-add-blscfg-module-to-parse-Boot-Loader-Specif.patch If all bootloaders would follow the spec, nothing has to be configured manually and would just use the dropin directories. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
