FC4T3 still writes grub to MBR when told not to

Matthew Lenz matthew at nocturnal.org
Wed May 11 21:35:05 UTC 2005


I didn't have fc4t3 install grub.  Can someone who did have it install
grub send me the default kernel and initrd entries for the
default /etc/grub.conf?  Just wanna see if all the params i'm using are
what anaconda would use by default.

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:18 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote:
> I saw the mbr issue with t1. then t2 wouldn't install grub at all if you
> selected that you wanted it installed the partition instead.  so you are
> saying that it has reverted back to the t1 functionality? :) greeaaat
> 
> you could go the ubuntu route and ask the user to type in the name of
> the grub device they want to install to, that won't confuse anyone ;)
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:31 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:21 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
> > 
> > > This _really_ needs to be fixed before FC4 release.
> > 
> > Yes. What I've been doing is just not installing grub at all.
> > Then I make rawhide bootable from within fc3.
> > I agree it needs to be fixed.
> > 
> 




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