On EFI: F18 is rendered unbootable after installing F19

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 13:29 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964828
> 
> 
> I don't see a criteria related to the breaking of a prior bootable
> system. Is there one? It seems really non-ideal for the installation
> of a system to break the bootability of the previous system, so I'm
> proposing it for freeze exception.

There isn't an explicit criterion, no. I filed a bug on this long ago,
but from a different angle: I was figuring we should be creating
separate *EFI* boot manager entries for each Fedora install. That was
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759303 , and was closed as
WONTFIX by Jesse with the comment "Not a scenario we're going to
support." So this was basically 'by design', before. But your way of
looking at it may be the better one, and an easier (and less likely to
break, with all this NVRAM crap) way of supporting multiple UEFI Fedora
installs on a single machine.

Given the fact that the current state is really bad, and the proposed
fix seems like it can't affect other scenarios or make the affected
scenario any worse than it is at present, I'd probably +1 the FE
proposal.
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