Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Feb 4 15:02:04 UTC 2009


On 2009-02-04 at 3:25:37 -0500, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
> Christoph Höger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> fedora has recently been tested (again) and compared against other
>> distributions (Ubuntu and OpenSUSE) by c't, a german IT magazine from
>> the heise publishing house.
>>
>> Among other criticisms one thing was really annoying: When a user
>> installs fedora on a machine with windows installed (common use case) it
>> detects that installation and offers to add it to grub. But installing
>> fedora on a box with an already present linux distro installation will
>> yield that installation removed from grub.
>>
>> I understand that the bootloader is a part of the distro and its
>> configuration gets changed e.g. during kernel updates, but is there
>> really only the answer to remove one distribution completely?
>> Do we really want to support Windows as second OS more than OpenSUSE or
>> Ubuntu (or CentOS, or Debian, or Gentoo, or ........)
>> At least the anaconda team should consider printing a warning about one
>> OS going to "be lost" during install and how to recover.
>>
>> Any thoughts on that?
>>
> 
> Patches welcome comes to mind.

It's worth noting for anyone doing this work that in F10, grub is not
really displayed anymore. I don't know if the timeout is changed from 0
if Windows is added to the grub.conf, but it probably should be (and any
changes to add other Linux distributions to the grub conf should also
reset the timeout from 0 as well).

~spot




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