Bug 8851

Summary:	Installer assumes that bootloader is not to MBR
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Barry Jackson <zen25000>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	alfred.kretschmer, eeeemail, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Barry Jackson 2013-01-27 22:11:20 CET

Description of problem
At the  summary during install of mga3b2, the installer has for some reason decided that the bootloader has been requested to be in the root partition not the MBR.

This is wrong - it should assume MBR unless told otherwise at the summary.

This is related to (but not a duplicate of) bug #8740.

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Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-30 00:07:10 CET

cannot reproduce seems to be related to your partition conf

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Alfred Kretschmer 2013-01-30 22:12:05 CET

Can confirm the behaviour barjac reports. During all my test with mga3 isos on real hw bootloader was installed in root partition by default instead of MBR.

CC: (none) => alfred.kretschmer

claire robinson 2013-01-31 10:02:25 CET

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Comment 3 Barry Jackson 2013-02-03 15:45:53 CET

This also applies to an installation using the Live DVD.

Comment 4 Barry Jackson 2013-02-03 16:00:25 CET

It seems to affect installations where a bootloader already exists in the MBR.

Is this being detected now and implemented as an undocumented feature?

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-24 18:51:29 CET

yep, initially I created a vm with grub1, then with grub2 on the mbr, and then I grub wanted to install it on sda1 (with the same virtual drive)

first install in the debug log :

* bootloader::suggest_onmbr: type grub, onmbr 1, unsafe 1

second install: 

* bootloader::suggest_onmbr: type grub2, onmbr 0, unsafe 1

I don't know if adding grub2 here http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/bootloader.pm?view=markup#l556 make it work

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-24 19:24:08 CET

Fixed in SVN

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

Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-26 00:45:45 CET

Blocks: (none) => 8850

Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-26 11:18:31 CET

Blocks: 8850 => (none)

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-26 17:57:45 CET

*** Bug 8740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***