https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896369 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896369#c5 --- Comment #5 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@suse.com> 2014-09-12 09:46:46 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4)
How about in bootloader options screen replacing the checkbox for "Set Active Flag in Partition Table for Boot Partition" with a select list or radio buttons to select any partition for the flag, or to select none, from among existing partitions? The select list or buttons could be hidden if location of Grub installation is MBR.
It is not so easy as some broken bios checks disk if it contain any partition with boot, otherwise it will fail.
Something else could be on each individual partition's edit screen, add a radio button for "Set an active flag on this partition"?
I worry, that it is slightly out of scope bootloader. Bootloader goal is to provide reasonable configuration for user to allow boot, this is really dangerous and expert option, where user can easily break his booting.
Yet another possibility, on the installation summary of the partitioner to include a list of partitions that have active flags set, with a red warning provided for any disk with more than one flag set and Grub not installed to MBR?
Yes, this sound more reasonable. With link that will fix it ( in sense grub to MBR and activate exactly one partition to make broken bioses happy ).
(In reply to comment #3)
In general in your case I propose to unset all legacy_boot flags and install grub to MBR of disk. To be honest usually when you have more then one system, then having GRUB in MBR is the best choice to allow easy boot to both systems.
Not if there is also Windows, so Larry's only two, only Linux case would be a rather limited one. Even when there are only two, last to install wins is not an optimal way to have booting configured, as upgrading the earlier installation can repeatedly make a mess that needs manual cleanup.
Yes, I agree. I think I need to think slightly about this setup and how to best solve it. Probably try to detect such case and offer grub to MBR and have only one activated partition. -- 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.