Centos 6 wasn't detected at install time. On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:52:35 -0800 Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 23:32 +0100, Jean François Martinez wrote: > > I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Linux installation. Last > > thing I would want is a distribution I am _testing_, that is Fedora 20 > > forces on me it will be my main installation and forces me to choose > > between installing Grub on the MBR or not at all. > > Why? "Not at all" is precisely the correct action for a grub2-based > distribution in this case. > > I think we should do grub2-mkconfig for such installs, though it's a bit > tricky to refactor anaconda's bootloader install code to do so. I might > have a shot at it if I get a spare minute, though. > > But yes, aside from not generating a grub2.cfg for you, this is > precisely the right thing to do. If you don't want Fedora to own the > MBR, then you should not install a bootloader during installation. You > should install no bootloader, and then use grub2 configfile inclusion to > boot Fedora. See > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Multi_002dboot-manual-config.html > . > > > In addition it didn't detect my other Linux installation so at first > > boot I was only able to choose between Fedora 20 and Fedora 20. > > What is your 'other Linux installation'? It's not like we can do > anything if you don't even say that. (But we don't really do anything > special for multi-boot configuration; we let grub do it, via os-prober. > If it didn't find your other installers, it sounds like there's a bug in > grub.) > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- Jean François Martinez <jfm...@free.fr> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
