Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote on Mon, 27 May 2019 22:27:16 -0600:
>Dual Fedora's isn't officially supported. The installer almost always >steps on the previous Fedora's bootloader making it unbootable, in >favor of a new bootloader for the new Fedora installation. This deserves some attention. I expect to be able to install Fedora in some disk space, and still be able to boot an older Fedora previously installed in other disk space. I would like the Fedora Installer to be aggressive when it builds its new boot configuration file, and copy as much as it can from old boot configuration data. Certainly it cannot understand everything, but I would prefer a menu item with some comment that Fedora does not know if this will work but has included it because it was found in the existing system, than to find my old configuration was simply discarded by a new Fedora installation. It may be the best solution is some dual strategy that has the Fedora Installer do what is "easy" (other simple Fedora systems, maybe Windows) and leaves harder cases (unknown systems, unusual configurations, storage volumes that are not accessible during installation) for some utility that can be executed after installation by a user who can quide it to make desired changes to the boot configuration. "Do no harm." applies here, because recovery of boot configuration data lost during Fedora installation requires knowledge and experience beyond what many users have. _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
