Bug#260649: grub-installer: ask grub-installer/with_other_os at critical priority?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Colin Watson]
> > Perhaps this should be asked at critical instead?
>
> I think dual boot scenarios should be considred special enough to
> expect people to run on priority high or lower if they want that to
> work. Critical should be used for questions where the default will
> work for most people, not for questoins which might fail for some
> people.
I appreciate that dual-boot scenarios are special for debian-edu.
However, I don't think they're special in the majority of installations.
It's exceedingly common to install a distribution in a spare bit of disk
to see if it works before committing to it, surely?
> And if the boot loader is goofed up, one can rerun the installer with
> a lower priority to fix it.
That's true, on the other hand ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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