Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Feb 4 08:25:37 UTC 2009
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.
Regards,
Hans
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