Bug 46447

Summary:	parted doesn't mark partition active
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	gczarcinski, twaugh
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Description Tammy Fox 2001-06-28 18:51:00 UTC

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Description of problem:
After performing an installation on a machine with an IDE hard drive
on /dev/hda and choosing automatic partitioning, the / partition
was not marked active and Grub would not boot the OS.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-07-02 15:34:20 UTC

*** Bug 46772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Gene Czarcinski 2001-07-04 09:23:53 UTC

If grub insists that it will only boot partitions marked "active", then this
will cause protblems as I have systems with many different partitions (different
systems or versions of systems) all of which I want to be able to boot.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2001-07-10 06:39:07 UTC

GRUB doesn't care, only some (imho stupid) bioses care.  Made it so we emulate
the old behavior of making sure at least one partition is active per drive.