[Fedora-livecd-list] Grub kills GDM, but isolinux loves GDM !

[Jasper Hartline]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 9/23/06, Jasper Hartline <jasperhartline at adelphia.net> wrote:
>> > If isolinux is by default, won't it boot ?
>> Yes, we don't want to force users to use Isolinux however..  in the
>> exact case you describe
>> with not reading the manual page and Kadischi failing when no bootloader
>> is set.
>
> This is what I disapprove, since kadischi fails on default
> installation. And it fails nearly in the end, which is wrong to my
> eyes (at least there must be a test much early).
>
Good point. I'll go ahead and check the kadischi.conf for the presence 
of a valid bootloader
right after  checking UID. This is where we should be doing critical 
checks at.
> We are not forcing the users if isolinux is set by default, they still
> have the choice though (if they read the manual)!
We'll go ahead an bail if no bootloader is set early on, just after 
checking UID.
Is that good?

J. Hartline