Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Feb 4 01:23:05 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:17:30PM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 19:58 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 1. I think we should always install grub to the /boot partition's boot 
> > sector, no matter what.  That should be completely safe, because we 
> > "own" /boot and sharing a single /boot between different OS installs 
> > isn't really supported anyway.
> 
> I would posit that we should only do this if we format /boot. Otherwise
> it would need to be explicitly requested.

Sure, makes perfect sense.




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