https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223454 Summary: Installer can't install grub on Intel MAcbook partition table. Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: RC 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: chuller@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: aj@novell.com Description: The Partition table of a Intel MAcbook is a Global Partition Table (GPT), and not the kind usually found on x86 hardware. Additionally to the GPT the MAcbook keeps some kind of fake MBR that contains the 4 first Partitions in the GPT to give non OSX operatoin systems a way to boot with bootloaders. Unfortunatly this fake partitiontable has to be synced with the GPT after the GPT is changed which is done automatically with OSX tools, but not at all with linux tools that access the GPT like parted. So, if you resize the osx partition with OSX tools and then create partitions in that free space using the YaST2 installer, the partitions only get created in the GPT, but the fake MBR which is later used by grub is not synced with the modified GPT. This leads to a failing grub install at the end of Stage1 of the Installer. One then has first to start a OSX tool (i used refit) to resync the fake mbr with the GPT, reboot into the rescue system and then can install the grub on the root partition. Howto Repeat: o install SL10.2 on a Intel Macbook o see the grub install fail -- 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, or are watching someone who is.