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bug#26339: [PATCH 04/18] bootloader: Add install procedures and use them
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#26339: [PATCH 04/18] bootloader: Add install procedures and use them. |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:23:08 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:
>> If we decide that this use case isn't supported, that's fine. Many other
>> distros make the assumption that there's only one bootloader - which is
>> sometimes good because you can have another bootloader the distribution
>> doesn't know about (in addition to the one the distribution does know about)
>> that supervises all the others.
>
> Well you're right multiple bootloader may co-exist on multiple
> partitions. However I'm not sure how guix would manage more than one
> bootloader at a time ?
I’d be in favor of sticking with the only-one-bootloader assumption.
Maybe we can revisit that later if there’s a need, but for now it seems
much safer to just stick to that (and not block this patch set.)
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#26339: [PATCH 08/18] bootloader: Stop using grub module., (continued)
bug#26339: [PATCH 09/18] scripts: system: Move save-load-path-excursion and save-environment-excursion macros to the top., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/04/02
- bug#26339: [PATCH 09/18] scripts: system: Move save-load-path-excursion and save-environment-excursion macros to the top., Danny Milosavljevic, 2017/04/15
- bug#26339: [PATCH 09/18] scripts: system: Move save-load-path-excursion and save-environment-excursion macros to the top., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/04/15
- bug#26339: [PATCH 09/18] scripts: system: Move save-load-path-excursion and save-environment-excursion macros to the top., Danny Milosavljevic, 2017/04/15
- bug#26339: [PATCH 09/18] scripts: system: Move save-load-path-excursion and save-environment-excursion macros to the top., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/04/15
- bug#26339: [PATCH 09/18] scripts: system: Move save-load-path-excursion and save-environment-excursion macros to the top., Danny Milosavljevic, 2017/04/15
bug#26339: [PATCH 13/18] scripts: system: Remove unused variables., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/04/02
bug#26339: [PATCH 14/18] scripts: system: Rename grub? and install-grub? to bootloader? and install-bootloader?., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/04/02
bug#26339: [PATCH 15/18] scripts: system: Adapt "reconfigure" to new bootloader API., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/04/02