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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?
This may be more for grub upstream, but what if grub could create a menu
given different files to work with. Fedora installs /boot/grub/fedora.lst,
OpenSuSE installs opensuse.lst, and so on. This way multi-boot systems can
handle as many distros as needed/wanted and not have them step on each
other fighting for control of menu.lst and its formatting. Then menu.lst
could be used for common things (such as which to make the default,
timeout, splash, and other settings). Then create a tool to manage the
common file settings. It would only require the user to make sure that /boot
is large enough for kernels and the same for all distros. I think this would
be an easier solution than figuring out a common format for all distros to
use and making sure that they don't step on each others' toes.
- --Ben
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