http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670 User jsrain@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670#c1 Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |jreidinger@novell.com, | |juhliarik@novell.com Info Provider| |bderzhavets@yahoo.com --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain 2009-11-05 00:28:49 MST --- What does 'destroyed' mean? Which code was in MBR after the installation? In general: You need to hijack either a primary partition (in your case, none was available) or MBR to install a bootloader. From various reasons, we (Novell) do not support installing bootloader if there is no primary partition available (you should get a warning). If you want to install anyway, you need to review the settings. Our main purpose is to ensure that the just installed openSUSE will boot. There is no way to find out whether GRUB in MBR belongs to other, already installed system or whether it is a relic of some previous installations. I suggest you should check the 'Bootloader Options' button in bootloader configuration dialog - there is a check box which may be the cause of MBR being touched? Release notes remind you, for the future, this information needs to be moved to a more prominent place. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670 User jsrain@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670#c3 Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bderzhavets@yahoo.com --- Comment #3 from Jiri Srain 2009-11-05 03:25:45 MST --- Which code was in MBR after 11.2 installation? If there was generic MBR code there (most likely from your description as well as default behavior), then you can just uncheck relevant check box during installation. If you have some rest of previous GRUB installations in MBR and do not touch it during installation, you end up with completly unbootable system. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670 User bderzhavets@yahoo.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670#c5 --- Comment #5 from Boris Derzhavets 2009-11-05 04:11:37 MST --- OK . With OpenSuse 11.1 i just had to switch bootable glag from /dev/sda11 to /dev/sda1 loading from any Rescue Disk. Suse 11.1 didn't crash Grub Stage 1 in MBR,if bootloader was supposed to be placed outside of it during Suse 11.1 install. Now, to recover system i need DVD from original system responsible for boot management:- 1. Boot from CentOS 5.3 DVD boot: linux rescue # chroot /mnt/sysimage 2. Recover MBR # grub-install /dev/sda 3. Run fdisk and switch bootable flag to /dev/sda1.

But it is problem as if you rewrite it or destroy during installation, then mbr points to useless location (and we doesn't analyze where MBR stage1 points).

No problem, because location IS NOT useless. It contains original Grub Stage 2 I remember where MBR stage 1 points ( say /dev/sda1).Hence just one step:- Switch bootable glag from /dev/sda11 to /dev/sda1 loading from any Rescue Disk. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670 User bderzhavets@yahoo.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670#c7 --- Comment #7 from Boris Derzhavets 2009-11-05 07:31:41 MST --- I have to go through install one more time to refresh my memories. Thank you. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670 User jsrain@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552670#c9 Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|bderzhavets@yahoo.com | Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #9 from Jiri Srain 2009-11-06 04:43:47 MST --- Yes. As I wrote, you cannot find out whether GRUB in MBR is a relic of previous installation which does not exist any more or it belongs to other installed system. Therefore, if we want to ensure system will boot, we need to propose to rewrite it. Closing this bug. For future releases, we intend to put these check boxes to a more prominent place. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.