On 01/10/2014 11:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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? > For Fedora, it's the grub maintainer thinking, that you cannot add directories in the EFI partition without registering the name, although it's only required for subdirs in the /EFI top-level directory. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
