Bug 1384751

Summary:	Installer needs option for installing bootloader on install partition
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Graeme Gill <graeme>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vponcova
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Description Graeme Gill 2016-10-14 04:47:55 UTC

Description of problem:

In multi-boot systems, Fedora is one operating system amongst many. To work, it needs a boot loader that understands how to boot the installed version of Fedora. Being one of many operating systems, it can't demand the privileged position of its boot loaded being the one in the MBR. So it needs to work with a foreign boot loader that chains to its boot loader. The only place guaranteed to be available for Fedora's boot loader, is the partition the OS is installed in.

Since (I think) Fedora 18, this option has gone missing from the installer, and an elaborate and fragile manual workaround is required.

Steps to Reproduce:

Try to create a workable multi-boot system with Fedora as one of the operating systems, using Anaconda, without installing Fedora's boot loader into the MBR.

Suggested fix:

Add this option back into Andaconda. Anaconda then needs to make sure that space is reserved for grub2 in front of the operating system on the partition, and install grub2 at the the beginning of the partition. If block lists are needed, then Fedora needs to keep them updated when/if the startup file locations are changed in the file system.

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