Bug 159080

Summary:	Grub installed to MBR instead of first sector of boot partition
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gary Bartlett <redhat>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Gary Bartlett 2005-05-29 00:43:50 UTC

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Description of problem:
During installation I requested that the grub loader be installed to the 'First sector of boot partition' and not the 'Master Boot Record'.  My boot partition was configured as hdb2.  After installation, whilst trying to save the boot loader to a file, I noticed that the disk 2 partition 2 boot sector was empty.  I found the grub loader installed in my disk 2 MBR instead.

For reference, my disks are:

disk 1 (hda):
  MBR: Windows XP Loader
  P1:  NTFS
  P2:  NTFS
  P3:  -
  P4:  -

disk 2 (hdb):
  MBR: (was empty, but now contains grub)
  P1:  NTFS
  P2:  ext3      /boot       (boot sector empty, was expecting grub to be installed here)
  P3:  LVM PV    VolGroup00
  P4:  Extended

Luckily my disk 2 MBR didn't contain any loader I wanted to lose.


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How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
In the 'Advanced Boot Loader Configuration' dialog, request that the grub loader be installed to the 'First sector of boot partition' and not the 'Master Boot Record'.

Actual Results:  Grub boot loader was installed to the MBR of my second disk.

Expected Results:  It should've been installed to the boot sector of the linux boot partition (hdb2) as documented.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2005-05-29 02:49:06 UTC

This is fixed for the FC4 release.