https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750897
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750897#c16
--- Comment #16 from Neil Rickert 2012-03-20 02:55:07 UTC ---
If it didn't work, there is something buggy about that.
As I recall, the grub1 install might do something similar (switch the active
flag). However, there's an option to have it not do that. And I always select
that option when installing on a logical drive. That option was not available
on the grub2 configuration screen. I'm hoping it will get there by the time of
the final 12.2 release.
Flagging "/dev/sda5" active would not help. I flagged "/dev/sda3" active,
since that's what I normally use. That gets me to the grub menu for my 12.1
install. I have an entry in the 12.1 menu to boot "/dev/sda6" (chainloader),
and using that got me to the grub2 menu.
My personal opinion: If grub is not installed on one of the primary partition
sectors, then the installer should leave the active flag the way it is, and
perhaps display a notice that the user will need to find a way to boot from the
logical partition where it was installed.
In any case, if installing to the extended partition will work for future
versions, that should solve the problem.
I added my comments above just to provide feedback on where there might be
problems with M2.
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