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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 03.12.2012 14:44, schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:12:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
>> This sounds like a different bug than the one thats in the report
>> above. I'd advise the commenter to open a new one on mkfs or anaconda
>> to change the boot sector padding. 
> 
> It's part of the filesystem format, there's no way to change it

in other words - grub2 is way to bloated for a boot-loader and
looks more like a operating system with it's own scripting
language as a bootloader

that is also the reason why /boot has to start on 2048
while over decades it was not needed


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