Comment # 13 on bug 915098 from Josef Reidinger

(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 :)