Bug 538271

Summary: Nothing left to boot after F12 deactivated Windows partition
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2009-11-17 23:19:42 EST 
This is god damn fucking lovely!

I specifically selected NOT to install bootloader into MBR, which
I wanted to keep for NTLDR. Apparently, F12-LiveCD-KDE installer
just erased it anyhow. I did put GRUB on the /boot partition.

How the fuck am I supposed to boot now? 
How can I recover NTLDR?
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-11-18 09:24:07 EST 
That kind of language will get you nowhere with us.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 504570 ***
Comment 2 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2009-11-21 20:21:08 EST 
I apologize, but it took me a while to figure out what happened
and frustration was overwhelming.

So this is what actually transpired:

sda(MBR) contains Dell loader which passes to
   *sda2* boot sector was *active* originally, and used by NTLDR,
          and configured to load GRUB and Fedora if selected
    sda5  boot sector is where I put GRUB bootloader

After installation Anaconda *deactivated* sda2
and I could not reach any bootable OS.

Proposed solution:
Leave active partitions alone if user puts bootloader on a partition,
but warn that it's his responsibility to configure ALL bootloaders if he 
wants to reach /boot.
Comment 3 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2009-11-29 16:47:39 EST 
Fixed actually, see bug 533658
Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2009-11-30 05:12:58 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 533658 ***