Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

[Hans de Goede]

Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> fedora has recently been tested (again) and compared against other
> distributions (Ubuntu and OpenSUSE) by c't, a german IT magazine from
> the heise publishing house.
> 
> Among other criticisms one thing was really annoying: When a user
> installs fedora on a machine with windows installed (common use case) it
> detects that installation and offers to add it to grub. But installing
> fedora on a box with an already present linux distro installation will
> yield that installation removed from grub.
> 
> I understand that the bootloader is a part of the distro and its
> configuration gets changed e.g. during kernel updates, but is there
> really only the answer to remove one distribution completely?
> Do we really want to support Windows as second OS more than OpenSUSE or
> Ubuntu (or CentOS, or Debian, or Gentoo, or ........)
> At least the anaconda team should consider printing a warning about one
> OS going to "be lost" during install and how to recover.
> 
> Any thoughts on that?
> 

Patches welcome comes to mind.

Regards,

Hans