Bug 65358 - Installer fails to configure boot loader
Summary: Installer fails to configure boot loader
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-22 18:22 UTC by Samuel Flory
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:48:57 UTC
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Description Samuel Flory 2002-05-22 18:22:07 UTC 
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Description of problem:
  When you have a dos partition as the 1st partition on a system.  The install
will be unable to create a usable boot loader configuration.  This is fairly
important as both my laptops require a dos partition to use their suspend to
disk function.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use fdisk to create the following paritions in this order:
128M vfat
512 swap
the rest /

install normally


	

Actual Results:    I was unable to install a working boot loader configuration.

Additional info:

  You can configure lilo or grub by hand on the console.
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-22 21:48:05 UTC 
I have several systems with this setup (FAT at the start of the disk) that work.
 How does the bootloader configuration fail?
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-12 17:04:04 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add.
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:57 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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