On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 14:30 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: > 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. So what's the hold-up? -- 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