On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Pete Travis <me(a)petetravis.com> wrote:
How do you feel about a cheerful direction to either put it on the
MBR, or do it yourself? Would that be sufficient, given the level of detail in the
Installation Guide?
I'm confused, the installation guide already does that. The red Warning at
the bottom of this page:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/I...
"If you choose not to install GRUB for any reason, you will not be able to boot the
system directly, and you must use another boot method (such as a commercial boot loader
application). Use this option only if you are sure you have another way of booting the
system!"
I have no stake in this, I don't need to install GRUB to a partition. But based on
testers, bug reporters, and users of previous versions of Fedora and other linux distros,
a significant minority are used to being able to install GRUB to a partition. And this
last line, "only if you are sure" in my opinion will lead to a negative
reaction: "well what the hell, I definitely do NOT have another way of booting the
system, and I don't want to nuke my current boot loader! Now what am I supposed to
do?"
I'm suggesting giving them an explicit set of instructions for "do it
yourself" rather than leave them hanging.
Chris Murphy