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. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131031162818.gb25...@einval.com
