On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:35 AM Guido Aulisi <guido.aul...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO boot loaders should not write to filesystems, if this is needed to > hide the GRUB menu when boot is successful, then let's display it > always as it was one time. I don't think it we should follow Windows or > MacOS style here, the boot menu is useful.
It's an old design predicated on FAT and ext2. That design is outgrown. That's all. > Yet another partition needed to boot the OS. What when there are no > available paritions in BIOS mode, because other OSes used all the > available 4 partitions? GRUB can read EBRs. For bootloaders that don't understand EBR, they'll need to stick to the simple ways they're doing things already. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
