https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675951 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675951#c0 Summary: Dist-Upgrade: Don't replace MBR / Boot Loader Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: martin@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.114 Safari/534.16 Yesterday, I used 'zyypper dist-upgrade' to upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4 as described in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade. Unfortunately, the upgrade process installed a new MBR without asking me. This is a big problem for me since I'm using the Windows boot loader in the MBR and GRUB in the boot sector of my root partition. There also isn't any backup copy of the MBR; /boot/backup-mbr has a modification date from Dec 2009, so this can't be it. I ran into the same problem when dist-upgrading from 11.2 to 11.3, but at least this time I still remembered how to fix things. Could you guys please add some option to never touch any of the boot sectors, MBR or grub stage files ? I don't mind manually editing some expert option somewhere in /etc/sysconfig, but my setup is very complicated with dual-booting Windows, Linux natively and Linux inside VMware, and fixing the boot sector each time I do a dist-upgrade really sucks badly. Thanks, Martin Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This happened during the dist-upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3 and from 11.3 to 11.4. -- 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.