On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:08:51 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > On 09/17/2011 06:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 07:52 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: >>> I accidentally sent this through a different address, so I think >>> it's >>> just going to come back to me. If it turns out to be a double >>> post, >>> please forgive me. >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a one time fluke. I don't have >>> time >>> or hardware to do several test installs, but perhaps someone else >>> has >>> experienced it. >> There is a bug report on a very similar case here: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738964 >> >> it does seem like there may be an issue with the detection of >> whether a >> BIOS boot partition is necessary when installing from a USB stick. >> However, please do verify this with an image written via dd or >> livecd-iso-to-disk. We do not support unetbootin, as you said. > > Just performed two test of an usb key both created livecd-to-iso > > One network install and another one of an usb key it self ( dvd ) > > In both the installation process itself went but both times it > resulted > in anaconda installing the mbr on the usb key which leaves the user > with > unbootable system ( without the key ) and totally unrecovarable ( > since > they need to shrink the primary partition to create a mbr partition > on > it ) . > > JBG I'm confused by this result, I don't know of any reason why a straightforward net install from a disc would fail. What did you do exactly? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
