In F-10 and before we did not set the boot flag for /boot on msdos labels, this could lead to issues when asked to install grub into a partition, or with certain BIOS's which won't boot from a disk when there are no active partitions on the disk. However our new behavior of always setting the boot flag for /boot is wrong for msdos labels too, and is causing various issues, see (amongst others) bug 533658, 530894 and: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=231421 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=2348 --- storage/__init__.py | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/storage/__init__.py b/storage/__init__.py index b3da135..ea89633 100644 --- a/storage/__init__.py +++ b/storage/__init__.py @@ -291,6 +291,19 @@ class Storage(object): else: for dev in bootDevs: if hasattr(dev, "bootable"): + # Dos labels can only have one partition marked as active + # and unmarking ie the windows partition is not a good idea + skip = False + if dev.disk.format.partedDisk.type == "msdos": + for p in dev.disk.format.partedDisk.partitions: + if p.type == parted.PARTITION_NORMAL and \ + p.getFlag(parted.PARTITION_BOOT): + skip = True + break + if skip: + log.info("not setting boot flag on %s as there is" + "another active partition" % dev.name) + continue log.info("setting boot flag on %s" % dev.name) dev.bootable = True dev.disk.setup() -- 1.6.5.2 _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
