Re: TC7 bootloader installation

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On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 00:10 +0100, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know, though, if it's actually been implemented yet, or if it's
> > still on someone's todo list. I couldn't find anything in the git log
> > for it, but I may have missed it. I've added bcl and dlehman to the bug
> > and asked them to comment.
> 
> Bug 861192?

That was just your specific problem with a certain case of actually
installing the bootloader to a partition, doing it manually. It's not
the bug for the general case of adding the ability to do so back into
anaconda.

> I'm a little mystified by people who want to force a bootloader into a
> file system that doesn't offer a sufficient bootloader region for a
> bootloader to fit (e.g. ext[234] and XFS). I think there should be a
> none option, rather than a redirect and force option.

It's not that they want to force a bootloader into a filesystem. They
want to multiboot by chainloading, and that's the way you do that.
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