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Yes, I just checked and it actually does work. I must have misremembered =
something.

I also should have looked into how the bootloaders are defined. Since it =
is just a public record type, I guess there is no problem whatsoever in r=
eality.

Thanks.

03.01.2020, 01:28, "Ludovic Court=C3=A8s" <ludo@gnu.org>:
> Hi,
>
> "kanichos@yandex.ru" <kanichos@yandex.ru> skribis:
>
>> =C2=A0Yes, AFAIR it only works with =E2=80=98init=E2=80=99 and has no =
effect at all with =E2=80=98reconfigure=E2=80=99.
>
> =E2=80=98--no-bootloader=E2=80=99 should definitely work for =E2=80=98r=
econfigure=E2=80=99; could you
> double-check and report a bug if it doesn=E2=80=99t work?
>
> Now, if that=E2=80=99s useful, we could easily define a =E2=80=9Cnoop=E2=
=80=9D bootloader in
> (gnu bootloader noop), along these lines:
>
> =C2=A0=C2=A0(define noop-bootloader
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(bootloader
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(name 'noop)
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(package #f)
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(installer #~(cons #t))
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(configuration-file #f)
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(configuration-file-generator #f)))
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo=E2=80=99.