Proposing new dual booting release criteria

[Felix Miata]

Gene Czarcinski wrote on 2014-09-13 09:25 (GMT-0400):

> how do we *specify* that we do 
> not what the MBR updated.  The simplest way I could think of is to use 
> an anaconda boot option similar to using "extlinux" for anaconda to 
> install extlinux rather than grub2.  Maybe "nombr" or "nombrupdate"?  
> This would be a simple way to specify it and have things work for 
> kickstart and non-kickstart installs.

> Comments?

Maybe "protectmbr"? I really like Mandrake->Mandriva->Mageia's cmdline option
"readonly=1" that skips any need or opportunity to use the "partitioning"
segment of its installer and does no (IIRC) disk writing anywhere other than
already existing volumes selected for inclusion in fstab.
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