Description of problem: Unless I am mistaken, Anaconda won't let me select sda3 as the partition to install the bootloader on, only sda. This impacts multiboot. I have 7 partitions on my HDD: * sda1 => /boot for OS #1 * sda2 => /boot for OS #2 * sda3 => /boot for OS #3 * sda4 => extended * sda5 => PV for OS #1 * sda6 => PV for OS #2 * sda7 => PV for OS #3 OS #1's grub chainloads to the other bootloaders, of course. RHEL5, RHEL6, and Fedora up to 17 included let me select a partition instead of a device to install the GRUB bootloader on. With F18, I could not find the option to do so, there is only a graphical drive list, with a bootable flag. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The one in Smoke12 at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/20121221_f18-smoke12/ . How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot installer 2. Go to partition selection, click on drives, etc Actual results: The bootable flags affects only the whole drive, leading presumably to a bootloaer installed on /dev/sda. Expected results: Being able to select /dev/sdaX.
I should add that all the OSes installed on that drive are part of the Red Hat family - RHEL, and Fedora.
I am not a Fedora "regular" (and do not speak for any part of the Fedora project) but I suggest that if you do a Google search you will find many related bug reports, for instance bub 872826 and bug 867469 and bug 886502 and bug 885240 .
Thank you Paul, I am going to close my bug as a duplicate of bug 872826 . For the record, installing Fedora 17 first (using the Minimal profile for instance), then using fedup-cli to upgrade to Fedora 18 works as expected.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 872826 ***