GNU bug report logs - #26339
[PATCH 00/18] wip: Support non grub bootloaders.

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Message #215 received at 26339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Subject: Re: bug#26339: [PATCH 04/18] bootloader: Add install procedures and
 use them.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:23:08 +0200

Hello,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> 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’.

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