[Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-12-02 18:12 (GMT-0500) Kevin Fenzi composed:

> On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:32:20 -0500 Felix Miata wrote:

>> Changing the boot track without permission is rude, particularly
>> since it doesn't bother to report it will obliterate what is already
>> there present. Fedora ought to be able to be put where the user wants
>> it, on a partition prepared as the user wants it prepared, without
>> any bootloader if that's what the user wants, and without writing
>> anything to any partition table when it's unnecessary and unwanted
>> due to all partitioning having been done in advance (see:
>> Mandriva/Mageia: cmdline option "readonly=1" results in only
>> "partitioning" to allow selection of mount points for existing
>> partitions).

> How can anaconda know all that?

You mean besides offering a cmdline option to tell Anaconda don't touch any 
partition tables?

>  If you are dual booting a bunch of
> OSes, don't you already have to manually decide how you want things to
> chainload and update? I think a default of MBR with an option to not do

I think MBR _default_ is inappropriate _every_ time Anaconda finds itself 
faced with a multiboot system. In these cases presuming one wants the 
existing bootloading configuation replaced is inane.

What to do about bootloader should be prominent and early. YaST gets the 
idea: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/yast2-is-exp.png (6 years ago).

> anything seems reasonable... how does the 'don't do anything with
> bootloaders' not meet your needs?

It needs to be put where it can be found. "It never presented an opportunity 
to discuss the bootloader." 
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