https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750897 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750897#c17 --- Comment #17 from Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com> 2012-03-20 04:26:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #16)
If it didn't work, there is something buggy about that.
As I recall, the grub1 install might do something similar (switch the active flag). However, there's an option to have it not do that. And I always select that option when installing on a logical drive. That option was not available on the grub2 configuration screen. I'm hoping it will get there by the time of the final 12.2 release.
Yes I am aware of such option in grub. It should be added in final 12.2 release .
Flagging "/dev/sda5" active would not help. I flagged "/dev/sda3" active, since that's what I normally use. That gets me to the grub menu for my 12.1 install. I have an entry in the 12.1 menu to boot "/dev/sda6" (chainloader), and using that got me to the grub2 menu.
Now I got it. Thanks for your explanations.
My personal opinion: If grub is not installed on one of the primary partition sectors, then the installer should leave the active flag the way it is, and perhaps display a notice that the user will need to find a way to boot from the logical partition where it was installed.
Sounds good to me. We might have to consider this in the future (recently the focus is on completing grub2 function, compared grub2, still lots of work to do..).
In any case, if installing to the extended partition will work for future versions, that should solve the problem.
I added my comments above just to provide feedback on where there might be problems with M2.
Thanks. That's very much appreciated. -- 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.