Beta TC4 karma requests

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 16:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On May 12, 2013, at 4:18 PM, "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Found Windows Boot Manager on Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
> > Windows Boot Manager is not yet supported by grub-mkconfig.
> > done
> > 
> > Is this supposed to work with grub2-mkconfig also, or only from anaconda?
> 
> It's sorta messy to use GRUB2-EFI as a boot manager. Ideally the
> firmware manufacturer would supply a decent GUI boot manager so you
> can choose the OS, rather than rely on GRUB acting as a boot manager.

That is not really happening in practice, though.

TC4 was definitely intended to add Windows to the grub2 bootloader. See
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F19/FEDORA-2013-7487 ,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873207 .

> The better alternative right now on UEFI computers, is rEFInd or
> gummiboot as the substitute boot manager, which then points to the
> native boot manager for Windows and Linux (on Linux that's EFI STUB
> which is built into the kernel). This totally obviates GRUB2, and I
> understand that I'm not actually answering your question.

...and it's much more manual effort to set up, as things stand.
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