Bug 46447 - parted doesn't mark partition active
Summary: parted doesn't mark partition active
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
: 46772 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-28 18:51 UTC by Tammy Fox
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-07-05 16:55:22 UTC
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Description Tammy Fox 2001-06-28 18:51:00 UTC 
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Description of problem:
After performing an installation on a machine with an IDE hard drive
on /dev/hda and choosing automatic partitioning, the / partition
was not marked active and Grub would not boot the OS.
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-07-02 15:34:20 UTC 
*** Bug 46772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Gene Czarcinski 2001-07-04 09:23:53 UTC 
If grub insists that it will only boot partitions marked "active", then this
will cause protblems as I have systems with many different partitions (different
systems or versions of systems) all of which I want to be able to boot.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2001-07-10 06:39:07 UTC 
GRUB doesn't care, only some (imho stupid) bioses care.  Made it so we emulate
the old behavior of making sure at least one partition is active per drive.
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