Preupgrade behavior or bug?

[Cristian Sava]

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 11:48 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
> 2010/1/26 Cristian Sava <csava at central.ucv.ro>:
> > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 11:08 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
> >> 2010/1/26 Cristian Sava <csava at central.ucv.ro>:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > I usually manually upgrade my fedora systems but tried using preupgrade
> >> > in multiboot configurations.
> >> > If windows is the boot manager ...
> >> > Why update configuration in preupgrade change the boot flag, leaving an
> >> > unbootable system or with other boot order?
> >> > Sure, it's easy fixable but not desirable.
> >> > So why?
> >>
> >> How is preupgrade supposed to change the windows bootloader? If you
> >> think you have to use the windows bootloader, you have to fix it every
> >> update/upgrade
> >>
> >> --
> >> LG Thomas
> >>
> >> Dubium sapientiae initium
> > By the way,
> > Do you understand what the boot flag is and for what?
> > Hint: "fdisk /dev/sda" and toggle boot flag.
> >
> > So why to change this on upgrading in some environments?
> 
> Preupgrade never changed a boot flag here. And i have "some"
> environments. What i do not have is a windows and i would never use
> the windows bootloader. But to each their own. So, what are you doing,
> or with other words, what's so special in your environment? Playing
> around with bootorder in bios to workaround some mess?
> 
> -- 
> LG Thomas
> 
> Dubium sapientiae initium
This also hapen on Windows Vista / Windows 7 and Fedora 10/11/12 on
Intel or Athlon systems (I tested only x32 configurations).

Cristian Sava