On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 15:18 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
A recent Tumbleweed snapshot removed master-boot-code. What is the replacement, has the replacement been tested?
The code in master-boot-record.rpm did just look for a primary, active partition and loads/runs the startup code from that partition. What I learned the hard was a couple of times is that Windows, after certain updates are installed, will not boot anymore unless its boot partition is marked as active in the partition table. I think sometimes it would refuse to install certain updates if its boot partition is not marked as active.
Olaf
According the information provided with the del req for master-boot- code (which, by the way was broken for a long time - see http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125307 ) the replacement is to use /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin as provided by syslinux instead of the .mbr provided by m-b-c. Cheers Dominique