[Bug 450963] grub installed in MBR and broke the system, instead of installing it to root partition

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450963 User jdsn@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450963#c6 J. Daniel Schmidt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #257327|0 |1 is obsolete| | --- Comment #6 from J. Daniel Schmidt 2008-12-03 06:45:11 MST --- Created an attachment (id=257704) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=257704) y2logs of this issue Sorry for the wrong logs, I don't know how they mixed up. These are the logs documenting this issue. And to clarify it: The MBR already has a grub installed and chainloaded all other 9 distributions correctly. This worked fine for all Beta versions of openSUSE 11.1 (and previous version and SLE products :) ) I always selected to install grub to the root partition, and the MBR was _never_ touched, but with RC2 it was - thats what I wanted to report.

YaST always writes generic bootloader code to MBR by default, which probably happened to you (if there is some mess there, system cannot boot otherwise)

Even if I select not to do it, as I wanted to keep my MBR?

If you want to keep MBR in other situations, you need to ensure it is not affected

How? In the installation I selected to write grub to the root partition and not to the MBR. This was sufficient for all previous releases. How to it now?

(but then your system may not boot out of the box)

Well, it did, because I know the current MBR is correct (thats why I wanted to keep it). And after I replayed the "backup_mbr" it works again.

there is a check box to enable/disable writing generic code to MBR

According to the scenarios document, your scenario (GRUB to a logical partition) is not supported and is not supposed to work out of the box.

I am not complaining that it does not work out of the box. I wanted to point out that the MBR was changed even though I selected _not_ to do it. I did another test with RC2 to see if it is reproducable - it is! So I reopen this bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.