On Thursday 04 December 2008, Peter Czanik wrote:
- I installed to an extended partition (/dev/sda5). The default boot manager configuration is broken, as grub is only installed to an extended partition. This results in an unbootable system. It works fine when MBR is also used.
The behaviour of the grub installation changed during the betas/RCs. See this bug for the descibed issue: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450963 Solution: in the menu of the bootloader configuration you now have to uncheck the checkbox which allowes writing code to the MBR. Then the MBR will be left untouched. In all other cases if grub is found in the MBR, it will be changed - even if you wanted to install grub only to the root-partition of your installation. Hope this answers your question. Ciao, Daniel -- J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn@suse.de> SUSE Linux Products GmbH Research & Development Maxfeldstr. 5 GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) D-90409 Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org