grub in mbr needs bootable flag

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Sep 17 22:09:45 UTC 2009


Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
> Im using a kickstart installation with my own partitioning.
> I had no problems with Fedora 10 but now on f11 grub will not start
> without a bootable flag set on any partition.
> 
> It nearly looks as if grub is installed in some partition but I am quite
> shure that the old MSDOS MBR is overwritten.
> 
> Is there a way to check if grub is installed in the MBR?
> Or is it a bug in grub?
> 
> (kickstart option is: "bootloader --location=mbr")
> 
Dumb question - Is this a new install on a machine that had been
running Fedora 10, or is this another machine? The reason I ask is
that I have run into BIOSs that will not boot if one partition is
not marked bootable.

Mikkel
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