Description of problem: Running the Fedora updater on an installed Fedora 10 will cause the GRUB partition to be marked as bootable if GRUB was originally installed to the boot sector rather than the MBR and GRUB was not the boot partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 10 How reproducible: I have not tried to reproduce this, as it would require reinstalling. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 10. When asked to configure the boot loader, tell it to install GRUB to the boot sector rather than the MBR. 2. Install some other OS. Set that OS to be the boot partition. 3. Boot Fedora 10 (for example, using a boot menu besides GRUB). 4. Run the updater. Actual results: The update sets GRUB as the bootable partition. Expected results: The update leaves the bootable flags alone. Updates should not change the boot configuration. Additional info: I have a triple-booting Mac Pro among Leopard, Fedora 10 x86-64 and Vista SP1 x86-64. Leopard is on /dev/sda; Fedora and Vista are on /dev/sdb. Prior to the update, /dev/sdb1 was the boot partition for the second drive; the update set /dev/sdb2 as the boot partition. My boot loader is rEFIt, an EFI-based replacement boot menu for x86 Macs. It has MBRs and partitions' boot sectors as boot menu options; I used this to select Linux and the MBR to select Vista. Following the update: [myria@artemis Debug]$ sudo parted [sudo] password for myria: GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: ATA WDC WD3200AAJS-4 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 320GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI system partition boot 2 210MB 303GB 302GB hfs+ Customer 3 303GB 320GB 17.2GB fat32 DOS_FAT_32_Untitled_2 (parted) select /dev/sdb Using /dev/sdb (parted) print Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-4 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 372GB 372GB primary ntfs 2 372GB 372GB 206MB primary ext3 boot 3 372GB 500GB 128GB primary lvm
I think I'm seeing this as well, on a Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 upgrade. I have an extra bootable item showing in rEFIt. Might this cause bug 444490?
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