Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 61329
No obvious way to make space for a boot block
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:40:59 EDT
Description of Problem: When creating the lowest partition on a new disk Disk Druid warns about necessity of leaving an extra space for a boot block but how to achieve that effect is far from clear. No option to specify the lowest cylinder either in "New" or in "Edit" dialogs for a partition. How a newbie is supposed to guess that "Edit" on a "Free space" will make that possible? Probably only by random tries. Also in a text mode that dialog allows to cut-out a such new partition with a size specified in megabytes; but in graphics mode one can only give the last cylinder leaving calculations to an already spooked user.
In the current images I'm using, both autopartitioning and manual intervention with disk druid will automagically create the space at the front of the disk for the bootloader without the need for someone to create it Phil =--=