Multibooting UX, how well it ought to work

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Jun 30 19:23:06 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 03:11:08PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Another approach I took was refusing the premise we even need OS X boot entries in GRUB, so why not just disable os-prober on Macs, and then the four broken OS X options won't even appear. Instead the user can use the built-in firmware boot manager to boot either Fedora or OS X. Maybe there's some legitimate concern some users won't know how to activate this boot manager using the option key at the startup chime? This RFE was likewise proposed a while ago, changed to something else, neither proposal going forward, and then being close without action.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982847

The best plan is probably to figure out how to extend the boot loader 
spec appropriately, add support for it to grub and gut os-prober 
entirely.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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