Bug 679115 - ybl: tedious to install boot loader to USB drive
Summary: ybl: tedious to install boot loader to USB drive
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.4
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: 64bit openSUSE 11.4
: P3 - Medium : Minor with 5 votes (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2011-03-12 14:33 UTC by Thorsten Staerk
Modified: 2016-10-10 10:24 UTC (History)
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Description Thorsten Staerk 2011-03-12 14:33:24 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13

I am trying to install SUSE 11.4 to a USB disk. Everything runs fine, good work!

Now when I come to "Installation Overview" I have to configure the boot loader to be installed to /dev/sdc's master boot record.

So I go to the screen "Boot Loader Settings" - "Boot Loader Installation". Again, I want to write the boot loader to /dev/sdc's master boot record, but I cannot select this, as I get the choice to:

* Boot from Master Boot Record
-> which Master Boot Record?
* Boot from Root Partition
* Custom Boot Partition

this choice is unintelligible for me - I do not understand how to use it for installing SUSE to a USB disk. But - everything else is done! Your installer is super, your modules are there... Please adapt this menu. I would do this by giving a choice which MBR to write: The MBR of /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to install SUSE 11.4 to a USB disk incl. bootloader installation
Comment 1 Josef Reidinger 2016-10-10 10:24:37 UTC 
logic now changed, it is MBR of first disk in device map, which is by default disk where /boot lives. So in you case /dev/sdc.