http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604444 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604444#c0 Summary: Wrong partition(s) automatically (de-)activated during GRUB installation Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 6 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: zhubr@mail.ru QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 I have my hard disk partitioned into 3 primary and several extended partitions. Some of them are bootable, including some extended partitions (My MBR is capable of booting both primary and extended). Now because all of my primary partitions were already in use I installed openSuse into some unused extended partition, which worked pretty well except that after installation I found that ALL of my partitions lost their bootable flag and sda4 (the home of extended partitions, which is not for being used directly) was flagged bootable instead. I then had to boot in rescue mode and set bootable flags via fdisk manually and all went fine then. During installation, I checked the box named something like "activate root partition" or similar, expecting that it will flag my sda7 (/) as bootable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Prepare hard disk with several primary and extended partitions, make sure to install MBR capable of booting extended partitions too. Mark some partitions as bootable (primary and extended) 2.Install openSUSE into extended partition. During installation, request to install GRUB into root partition and request to activate it. 3.Proceed till the normal end of installation and reboot. Actual Results: After installation, all partitions previously marked as bootable are now marked as non-bootable. Root partition of the new installation is also marked non-bootable. sda4 partition is marked bootable for some reason. In such configuration the system can not boot previously installed OSes, and can not boot the freshly installed openSuse either. Expected Results: I'd expect that the installer just activated bootable flag of the root partition (that is, sda7 in my case) and not touched anything outside of it (unless explicitly requested to do so). I mark this issue as "minor" because most people usually have 1 or 2 partitions so the problem does not probably happen to them, but still the behavior is IMHO unclean and should be fixed eventually. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.