Bug ID | 930341 |
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Summary | Tumbleweed 20150508 unbootable after install |
Classification | openSUSE |
Product | openSUSE Factory |
Version | 201503* |
Hardware | x86-64 |
OS | SUSE Other |
Status | NEW |
Severity | Major |
Priority | P5 - None |
Component | Installation |
Assignee | yast2-maintainers@suse.de |
Reporter | nrickert@ameritech.net |
QA Contact | jsrain@suse.com |
Found By | --- |
Blocker | --- |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) konqueror/4.14.6 Safari/537.21 Build Identifier: Installed Tumbleweed 20150508 on laptop, using the DVD installer (64bit). Install is to an already existing encrypted LVM, with "/boot" as "/dev/sda5" using legacy MBR partitioning. My plan was to boot via the Windows boot manager. The initial boot configuration was: boot from "/boot" boot from extended partition set active flag install generic boot code into MBR. I turned off all but the first of those (to boot from "/boot"). I later went back and rechecked. The boot settings had turned on "set active flag" and "install generic boot code". I turned them off again. I then went back into the boot section again. And the same problem. The installer is stupidly insisting on this. I eventually allowed the install to go through anyway. Of course, it would not boot. The active flag had been set to the extended partition ("/dev/sda4") but there was no boot code in that partition. I had to change the boot flags (with a rescue boot) back to the Windows partition before I could boot. I'll note that this did not happen with install of 13.2 to the same partitions. So it seems to be a new installer problem. Reproducible: Always