https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c31 Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|agruen@novell.com | --- Comment #31 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-08-13 05:15:54 MST --- this is exactly the problem. why do you call parted at all to set a flag that is already set before ? (and as side effect parted nukes the MBR ...) d173:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee EFI GPT /dev/sda2 26 6335 50674086+ af Unknown /dev/sda3 * 6591 13002 51496358 83 Linux /dev/sda4 13002 13502 4016250 b W95 FAT32 d173:~ # /usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sda set 3 boot on d173:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 14594 117220823+ ee EFI GPT -- 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.