Comment # 15 on bug 915098 from Kenneth Wimer

(In reply to Josef Reidinger from comment #13)
> (In reply to Kenneth Wimer from comment #12)
> > Can't YaST just check to see if there is a bootloader installed at the given
> > location and if not, reinstall it?
> > 
> 
> It is quite hard. I can detect if there is something that looks like grub2
> code, but hard to quess if it will work and if it do exactly what expected.
> 
> > I would *really* like to avoid adding another button to this ui. Especially
> > one to solve the problem of an advanced user who messed things up by hand
> > and with the terminal. If the above solution is not possible, I would still
> > not add a button to this ui. It is clearly an advanced user doing advanced
> > things so they should simply finish their advanced task by hand.
> > 
> > How many users will this happen to? What kind of users are they? Simply
> > adding more and more functionality to YaST to solve every possible use-case
> > is making YaST unusable through complexity.
> 
> It is hard to say, but I think very limited amount of users, but if it
> happen to beginner, then he is in troubles, because without bootloader it is
> hard to play with pc :)

A beginner user would not get into this situation to begin with. 

This should happen somehow magically in the background or not at all. If the
auto-detection would take too long then I would suggest simply reinstalling it
every time. A user would not do this very often so any complaints of it taking
too long are not valid unless it takes a long time to reinstall (more than 30
seconds?)