Bug 750853 - protective MBR isn't marked bootable, system refuses to boot
Summary: protective MBR isn't marked bootable, system refuses to boot
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 754850
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-02 14:55 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-03 22:40:59 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2011-11-02 14:55:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

I did a live install off of a desktop image from last week. (Don't have the specific date)

I did custom partitioning of a blank drive:
- 2MB bios boot
- 25GB / - ext4
- 500MB swap
- 200+GB (the rest) /srv - btrfs

It used GPT partitioning. My machine boots with BIOS, not EFI.

The protective MBR did not have the bootable flag set. Because of this, the system failed to boot, with "No bootable device found". I went into the live medium, set the flag, and now the system boots.

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

anaconda-16.22-1.fc16, in a live image from sometime last week

How reproducible:

Happened once, have not tried to reproduce yet.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-02-03 22:40:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 754850 ***
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