Description of problem: During installation on HDD where linux partition allocated in extended, installer suggest to setup boot manager (GRUB) on this logical drive, but system can't boot from any logical drive (afaik). And not suggested for install boot manager to primary partition extended type. GRUB also not show extended partition as possible for install, but in manual - perfectly installed and works with no problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC6, F7 test2. How reproducible: Allocate HDD partitions like in "Additional info" (for ex.), clean any boot managers from /dev/sda and run install. Install FC to /dev/sda5 and choose it for install GRUB. Before finishing via console check: 1. No primary partitions marked as bootable, no boot manager in /dev/sda. 2. Run GRUB with commands: root (hd0,4) setup (hd0,1) 3. Run fdisk on /dev/sda and mark partition 2 as bootable. 4. Now system is bootable, but you may skip p2-3 and check that system is not booted. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Installer suggest /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5 as possibilities for install GRUB. Expected results: 1. Only primary partitions can be suggested. 2. Primary partition extended type (/dev/sda2) must be add to the list as choose for install boot manager. Additional info: Used allocation partitions after installing Windows before FC. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 8355 67111506 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 * 8356 30401 177084495 5 Extended /dev/sda5 8356 16004 61440561 83 Linux /dev/sda6 16005 17916 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda7 17917 19828 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda8 19829 24927 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda9 24928 30026 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda10 30027 30401 3012156 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Same bug with X86_64, two SATA drives sda and sdb. Installation, partitioning, etc were done on sda but the MBR was written on sdb.
This should be be easier to tell what's going on with test3