Bug#728359: debian-installer: Install bootloader earlier?
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:20:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> Hence CC'ing Joey in order to get his input here. Joey, do you
>> remember why bootloaders are only installed after apt-setup and the
>> like and not just after base-installer? I bet there is a reason..:-)
>
>The only reason I can think of is that it helps prevent accidentially
>rebooting the computer half way through the install and encountering a
>strange half-installed system.
Definitely, yes. If for some reason the installation is aborted, there
is a good chance that the system will at least reboot to the other
side of a dual-boot instead of leaving things dead.
There are also potential issues here with ordering - the bootloaders
may depend on quite a lot of packages and/or state in the system being
installed.
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