Bug 889724

Summary:	No option to select a _partition_ (vs a device) to install grub on
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	François Cami <contribs>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	18	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, awilliam, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, pf.rhlists, robatino, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description François Cami 2012-12-22 23:35:39 UTC

Description of problem:
Unless I am mistaken, Anaconda won't let me select sda3 as the partition to install the bootloader on, only sda. This impacts multiboot.

I have 7 partitions on my HDD:
* sda1 => /boot for OS #1
* sda2 => /boot for OS #2
* sda3 => /boot for OS #3
* sda4 => extended
* sda5 => PV for OS #1
* sda6 => PV for OS #2
* sda7 => PV for OS #3
OS #1's grub chainloads to the other bootloaders, of course.

RHEL5, RHEL6, and Fedora up to 17 included let me select a partition instead of a device to install the GRUB bootloader on. With F18, I could not find the option to do so, there is only a graphical drive list, with a bootable flag. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
The one in Smoke12 at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/20121221_f18-smoke12/ .

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot installer
2. Go to partition selection, click on drives, etc
  
Actual results:
The bootable flags affects only the whole drive, leading presumably to a bootloaer installed on /dev/sda.

Expected results:
Being able to select /dev/sdaX.

Comment 1 François Cami 2012-12-22 23:41:29 UTC

I should add that all the OSes installed on that drive are part of the Red Hat family - RHEL, and Fedora.

Comment 2 Paul Franklin (RHlists) 2012-12-23 15:50:33 UTC

I am not a Fedora "regular" (and do not speak for any part
of the Fedora project) but I suggest that if you do a Google
search you will find many related bug reports, for instance
bub 872826 and bug 867469 and bug 886502 and bug 885240 .

Comment 3 François Cami 2012-12-23 16:12:00 UTC

Thank you Paul, I am going to close my bug as a duplicate of bug 872826 .

For the record, installing Fedora 17 first (using the Minimal profile for instance), then using fedup-cli to upgrade to Fedora 18 works as expected.

Comment 4 François Cami 2012-12-23 16:12:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 872826 ***