F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:59 PM, David Lehman <dlehman at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> Between TC1 and release of F16 Alpha, something must have changed to the
>> worse with regard to installing GRUB to a partition's primary sector.
>> Partitioning hasn't changed. TC1 managed to install GRUB to /dev/sda3.
>> Anaconda now reports failure to install, and I've found this on virtual
>> console:
>>
>>   /usr/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a
>>   partitionless disk or to a partitionj. This is a BAD idea..
>>
>>   /usr/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
>>   installed in this setup using blocklists. However, blocklists are
>>   UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
>>
>>   /usr/sbin/grub2-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
>>
>> Bug or feature?
>
> Both? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728742

I did Fedora 16 Respin iso install with all latest packages, including
latest Anaconda package, and still had this issue.

There were two ntfs partitions (Windows 7 + data partition) and 30 GB
of free space.