Bug 733491

Summary: Install failed with error: "There was an error installing the bootloader."
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew McNabb <amcnabb>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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OS: Linux   
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Description Andrew McNabb 2011-08-25 19:31:01 UTC 
In installing Fedora 16 Alpha, I got the error message: "There was an error installing the bootloader.  The system may not be bootable."

The program.log has some information that might be relevant:

"""
12:54:47,449 ERR program: /usr/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
12:54:47,451 ERR program: /usr/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
12:54:47,452 ERR program: /usr/sbin/grub2-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
"""

I'm a bit surprised that it's saying anything about GPT.  This is a virtual machine, and its disk image was previously initialized with the kickstart commands "zerombr" and "clearpart --linux --drives=vda --initlabel", which I would expect to create an MBR partition table.

Anyway, I will attach some log files that seem like they might be helpful.
Comment 1 Andrew McNabb 2011-08-25 19:32:38 UTC 
Created attachment 519969 [details]
storage.log
Comment 2 Andrew McNabb 2011-08-25 19:32:57 UTC 
Created attachment 519970 [details]
program.log
Comment 3 David Lehman 2011-08-25 19:41:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727679 ***