[Bug 541731] New: YaST installer overwrites MBR
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541731 Summary: YaST installer overwrites MBR Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 7 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: dbailey@datanetworks.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-3.4 Firefox/3.5.2 When using openSUSE 11.2M7, specifically seeing that the configuration is show to not load the bootloader into MBR, it still overwrites the MBR. The original MBR is backed up in /boot/backup_mbr and can be restored. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install OS 2. Use partition setup, edit the partition setup 3. Ensure that installing the bootloader on the MBR says disabled Expected Results: The boot loader should not be installed on the MBR if is configured not to. -- 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.
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David Bailey
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