Automatic GRUB installation only if GRUB isn't already installed

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Hervé Fache napisał(a):
>> And even better, when the MBR is backed up, offer in GRUB menu option
>> "Boot the previous boot loader".
>
> Yup, this is what happened to my father-in-law who has WIndows,
> Kurumin and Kalengo (two Knoppix derivatives) on his desktop. I don't
> think it is less confusing though! I am still trying to move him to
> Kubuntu ;-)
>
> Ideally, we want to find out what boot loader is in there, where it
> points to, and whether there are some boot loaders on the pointed
> partitions. Once we have all that, we can automatically create a menu
> that rules them all, ideally on the start of our partition, so we
> don't mess with anything. Maybe we could install on the MBR if the
> current boot loader is neither lilo nor grub...

Detecting what boot loader is in there and what it boots is orders of
magnitude harder than just letting it run.

	Krzysztof Lichota


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