Bug 867469

Created attachment 628877 [details]
screenshot of proposal #1 for 'do not install bootloader'

Created attachment 628878 [details]
screenshot of proposal #2 for 'do not install bootloader'

Perhaps a simpler modification that involves the current design would be to just allow you to deselect whatever device is selected on the shopping cart dialog?

Whatever works, comment #3 seems ok.
Being able to deselect devices sounds reasonable to me.

If that cannot be done, anaconda should at least provide a boot parameter.

F18b TC6 still does not permit to not install a boot loader.

The deadline for "Features 100% Complete" is today. 

Please consider adding that feature since there will be configuration in which you would not want anaconda to touch the boot sector. (or update the deadline date in F18 schedule).

Feature completion does not mean bug free.  Otherwise, the final release would be at the same time.

Any news regarding the option to not to install any boot-loader?

It's not as discoverable as I would like, but basically you can go into the disk shopping cart, highlight whatever disk has the bootloader check, click the button, and it'll unset that device for receiving the bootloader.  Thus, you should not get a bootloader installed.

I could probably change the button text, but we are after string freeze.

Might commit http://fpaste.org/3y3m/ to change up the button text anyway.  It would be a string that likely wouldn't get translated, but that's not such a big deal.  More important to not break existing strings.

I only have an i386 machine so I'm unable to use the "smoke"
builds (as they are only for 64-bit machines), so I am stuck
using F18Beta (and thus anaconda 18.29.2) until the first
"final TC" comes along.  So I wonder if I can ask for an
updates.img patch for this fix (against 18.29.2 I mean)?

Thanks.

Created attachment 658366 [details]
anaconda.log (smoke3)

@Chris Lumens

Thanks for your previous prompt response, i could not test it until today.

I downloaded smoke3 netinstall (too slow connection and no deltaisos makes
downloading the whole iso not possible, also i can only install the minimal
package set for the same reason).

From the UI perspective, it looks clear and understandable. 

Performed steps:

0. Restore the working w7 qemu image and test that it boots: it does.
1. Boot F18b (anaconda smoke3) netinstall and use closest mirror.
2. Selected 'minimal' package set.
3. Select the disk containing W7 (in this case, there is only one disk).
4. Set anaconda's option to NOT to install any bootloader.
5. Selected automatic partitioning, default type (lvm).
6. Reclaim space: set to 'shrink' the big ntfs partition.
7. Installed F18b smoke3 ok, but...
8. After reboot, it becomes clear that anaconda did not honor the 
'do not install bootloader' directive for some reason.

9. Goto Step #0 and retry once more. Same result again.

Note: I performed the steps above to test this bug-report and also 875484.
I tried to install without bootloader to see if this made a difference on 875484.

I will test with another guests later and provide more feedback later.

Created attachment 658367 [details]
storage.log (smoke3)

Created attachment 658368 [details]
program.log (smoke3)

There is a 'do not install bootloader' option in anaconda.

Maybe this bug-report can be closed since it was about the lack of such option. If i find issues with that option i will file a proper bug-report for it.

Cheers.

Well, changing text in button and having only one is really bad, which means one button should have always same function.
Please use other technique for setting boot disk, like checkbox, radio-button or whatever, just don't use this solution.

Moving back to assigned.

Please don't reopen the bug just because you don't like the button.  I've talked this over with other people here and we all think it's fine, and other people on this bug report think it's fine (see comment 11).

(In reply to comment #15)
> Well, changing text in button and having only one is really bad, which means
> one button should have always same function.
> Please use other technique for setting boot disk, like checkbox,
> radio-button or whatever, just don't use this solution.
> 
> Moving back to assigned.

I completely agree. Having one button do two things is very confusing. As you note, there are well-established GUI elements for this exact situation.

Unfortunately, user-interface design bugs are not recognized by anaconda developers.

> I completely agree. Having one button do two things is very confusing. As
> you note, there are well-established GUI elements for this exact situation.

Multiple people have gone over this and said it's fine to do it this way.  The button simply toggles whether a device gets the bootloader or not.  It doesn't do two things.  It's really not complicated.

> Unfortunately, user-interface design bugs are not recognized by anaconda
> developers.

This increasingly developer-hostile attitude only serves to ensure that we ignore large parts of bug reports.  It's also completely unnecessary hyperbole.  We've got plenty of UI-related bugs that we are working on, and plenty that have been reported that we've not gotten to yet but will.  So really all the above statement does is just inflame the situation, not do anything to improve the quality or experience at all.  Please reconsider disparaging the only people who have the ability to work on your bugs.

Apple knows something about user-interface design:

'Do not use a push button to indicate a state, such as on or off. Instead, you can use checkboxes to indicate state, as described in “Checkbox.”'

OS X Human Interface Guidelines
UI Element Guidelines: Controls
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Controls/Controls.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000359-TP6

Btw, in comment 11 Reartes stated that this option is present, but didn't work.. I didn't find any bug from him about bootloader after that, so at least this should be properly retested


Reartes,
could you please verify that the option for not to installing bootloader works for you?

Thanks.