186255 – YaST2 deletes MBR during installation

Bug 186255 - YaST2 deletes MBR during installation

Summary: YaST2 deletes MBR during installation

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213256

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 10.2
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Installation (show other bugs)
Version:	Alpha 1
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Olaf Dabrunz
QA Contact:	Stanislav Visnovsky

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Clone This Bug

Reported:	2006-06-19 14:54 UTC by Holger Sickenberg
Modified:	2006-10-25 10:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:
Found By:	Other
Services Priority:
Business Priority:
Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---
IT Deployment:	---

Attachments
YaST2.tgz (806.33 KB, application/x-gzip) 2006-06-19 15:20 UTC, Holger Sickenberg	Details
View All Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Description Holger Sickenberg 2006-06-19 14:54:53 UTC

I selected to install GRUB on root partition (sda11) but the MBR got deleted during installation.

Comment 1 Holger Sickenberg 2006-06-19 15:20:13 UTC

Created attachment 90346 [details]
YaST2.tgz

Comment 2 Stefan Fent 2006-10-25 09:55:01 UTC

Depending on what you had on the szstem before, this might have been necessary.
MBR is just replaced by generic MBR, which makes sense in most cases.
Did you disable this in the checkbox?

Comment 3 Holger Sickenberg 2006-10-25 10:07:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 213256 ***