> > Can I avoid the MBR issue in advance of the installation? Is YUM a > > confirmed problem? > > MBR issue: run linux expert at the boot prompt, and when you get into the > install, before you start installing the packages, hit alt+f2 to switch to > the second console. dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/mbr bs=512 count=1 should > save your MBR into /root/mbr. Hit alt+f7 to go back to your install (i'm > assuming you are running graphical install). After all the packages have > been installed and before you reboot, go back into the console, and cat > the saved mbr into /dev/hda. That is great, thanks! So with this I can get my bootprogram in the MBR back the way it was. But now i'm puzzled: how does one get a new bootrecord in the bootpartition so that one can chainload to boot into FC4t1? Tino