> I'm not sure that actually _is_ suboptimal, because if
you're not
> installing a bootloader, there's really nothing at all the installer
> does to render the installation 'bootable'; there's nothing to test. It
> just installs the packages. It's up to the user to configure boot. So
> I'm not sure there's something it makes any sense to test, at that
> point.
It could be argued the test is to make certain the first 440 bytes of LBA 0
haven't been modified. That's really the ultimate metric as far as I can
tell. It doesn't matter if anything else is installed.
OK, if that's the intended and only purpose of this test case, then I agree.