Description of problem: FC5 fails to boot after flawless install. GRUB is not invoked, as if boot sector of installation partition contained no boot code. MBR contains Ranish Partition Manager boot loader Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Happened on a MSI desktop and Hi Grade Laptop. Seems computer independent. Steps to Reproduce: 1.create partition of type vfat or old linux 0x81 (with RanishPartMan) 2.install FC5: ask anaconda to format said partition as ext3. Ask anaconda to install grub in boot sector of said partition. 3.reboot machine: no boot! Actual results: MBR with Ranish is read and boot sequence goes on but selected partition is not bootable (boot goes to second device in BIOS boot list) Expected results: CLean boot Additional info: Problem solved by manually correcting partition type with fdisk (no reformat!). Still no boot. Re-install of grub with GRUB>setup (hd0,0). Some errors, not fatal, then boots fine! My guess: anaconda formats the partition correctly and installs the system. BUT it doesn't set the partition type to what's needed for ext3; maybe this causes problems to grub. (or maybe anaconda can't install grub in the boot record of a partition, but that's less likely).
Created attachment 131657 [details] Just more lengthy description (from a posting I made to Fedora Community Portal Forum)
Is this still a problem? I'm told that parted does set the partition type correctly so if you're still seeing this, anaconda must not be doing the right thing when calling parted.