Bug 24947

Summary:	Undesired place for installation of Grub2
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Peter Littmann <peter.littmann>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Martin Whitaker <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Peter Littmann 2019-06-13 20:31:41 CEST

I want to say that I installed Mageia 7rc this morning (on /dev/sdc8) and I do not have an EFI partition.

During the installation I came to the point "Installation of the Bootloader" where I selected Grub2 and EFI was presented as method.
This could not be changed to BIOS method contrary to my expectation. I would like to select /dev/sdc.
Grub2 was probably installed in /dev/sda.

Comment 1 Peter Littmann 2019-06-14 02:09:18 CEST

Sorry, I have to correct:
grubx64.efi was installed to /EFI/mageia which is on /dev/sda3.

Lewis Smith 2019-06-14 10:06:31 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Peter Littmann 2019-06-14 10:19:26 CEST

I did a new Installation now and choosed the BIOS Image in my Boot Setup Screen. This time the Installation offered me /dev/sdc and sda and sdb. But not Partition Boot Record or ESF.

So may be it works as intended and my Report may be closed.

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2019-06-14 10:32:06 CEST

Yes, if you boot the installer in UEFI mode, it assumes you want the installed system to be booted via UEFI.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID