Bug 538271 - Nothing left to boot after F12 deactivated Windows partition
Summary: Nothing left to boot after F12 deactivated Windows partition
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 533658
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
urgent
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-18 04:19 UTC by Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Modified: 2009-11-30 10:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-11-18 14:24:07 UTC
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Description Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2009-11-18 04:19:42 UTC 
This is god damn fucking lovely!

I specifically selected NOT to install bootloader into MBR, which
I wanted to keep for NTLDR. Apparently, F12-LiveCD-KDE installer
just erased it anyhow. I did put GRUB on the /boot partition.

How the fuck am I supposed to boot now? 
How can I recover NTLDR?
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-11-18 14:24:07 UTC 
That kind of language will get you nowhere with us.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 504570 ***
Comment 2 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2009-11-22 01:21:08 UTC 
I apologize, but it took me a while to figure out what happened
and frustration was overwhelming.

So this is what actually transpired:

sda(MBR) contains Dell loader which passes to
   *sda2* boot sector was *active* originally, and used by NTLDR,
          and configured to load GRUB and Fedora if selected
    sda5  boot sector is where I put GRUB bootloader

After installation Anaconda *deactivated* sda2
and I could not reach any bootable OS.

Proposed solution:
Leave active partitions alone if user puts bootloader on a partition,
but warn that it's his responsibility to configure ALL bootloaders if he 
wants to reach /boot.
Comment 3 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2009-11-29 21:47:39 UTC 
Fixed actually, see bug 533658
Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2009-11-30 10:12:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 533658 ***
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