http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500419 Summary: default install leaves system with unbootable MBR/partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 1 Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: novellbmw@lsmod.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090309 SUSE/1.1.15-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.15 I tried "openSUSE-11.2 Milestone 1" and found that both the partition based setup and LVM based setup by default - do not install grub into MBR, even though I used a blank disk for the install - do not set active/bootable flag on /boot partition so that BIOS or default MBR stops with "Error No active partition" this should be considered together with bug 496002 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create blank disk: img=/tmp/opensuse112.img qemu-img create $img 3G 2. qemu-kvm -smp 4 -hda $img -cdrom /tmp/openSUSE-NET-Build0066-x86_64.iso -boot d -m 512 3. choose minimal or XFCE install, leave everything else at default values Actual Results: BIOS or default MBR stops with "Error No active partition" Expected Results: Installer should set active flag on /boot partition (i.e. /dev/hda1) and thus allow to start newly installed openSUSE I ran this on a Phenom X4 but this should also occur on different hardware. -- 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.