Most PC's have a BIOS boot menu which make it easy to use multiple OSes on seperate disks. Disks are cheap. Not worth the trouble of bootmanagers.
________________________________ Van: owner-m...@openbsd.org <owner-m...@openbsd.org> namens Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> Verzonden: maandag 28 juni 2021 16:53 Aan: Parodper <parod...@gmail.com> CC: misc@openbsd.org <misc@openbsd.org> Onderwerp: Re: Adding a prompt on the installer before overwriting the partition table Parodper <parod...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think there should be a prompt in the installer before overwriting the > partition tables. The current behavior is, when selecting the whole > disk, to overwrite the partition table directly. Isn't it kind of obvious that selecting the whole disk requires overwriting the partition table? The installer has acted this way for more than 20 years. It is well documented. Haven't heard a complaint in a decade. Did you read the installation docs? I doubt other major operating system installers ask you again if you are sure you want this hidden but obvious step, so why should our installer? Meanwhile, your change probably breaks including auto and templated installs -- because a newly introduced question which isn't answered will receive \n, and without y\n it fails. Furthermore I think the whole concept of installing multiple operating systems on one disk and multiple-booting is increasingly complex to the point of being a waste of time. Major operating systems don't make it trivial. Why should the smaller systems be held to the standard of making it easy? It is easy to get another machine, or use a virtual machine. Sorry to break the news, but as a rule the most fragile configurations of any software are the ones unused by the developers. This is definately one. None of us use multiboot.
