grub in mbr needs bootable flag

Herbert Gasiorowski gasi3 at web.de
Mon Sep 21 13:13:19 UTC 2009


On 09/18/2009 12:09 AM, Mikkel wrote:
> Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
>> Im using a kickstart installation with my own partitioning.
>> I had no problems with Fedora 10 but now on f11 grub will not start
>> without a bootable flag set on any partition.
>>
>> It nearly looks as if grub is installed in some partition but I am quite
>> shure that the old MSDOS MBR is overwritten.
>>
>> Is there a way to check if grub is installed in the MBR?
>> Or is it a bug in grub?
>>
>> (kickstart option is: "bootloader --location=mbr")
>>
> Dumb question - Is this a new install on a machine that had been
> running Fedora 10, or is this another machine? The reason I ask is
> that I have run into BIOSs that will not boot if one partition is
> not marked bootable.
>

Well, i tried 3 machines and not quite sure what has been running before..
Fedora 11, Centos, Windows XP.
But in between I tried Centos (which works) and then again Fedora 11 which fails.

Maybe it is really the BIOS (only intel boards here - but different chips).

Herbert




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