On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 11:48 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: > 2010/1/26 Cristian Sava <csava@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 11:08 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: > >> 2010/1/26 Cristian Sava <csava@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > Hi all, > >> > I usually manually upgrade my fedora systems but tried using preupgrade > >> > in multiboot configurations. > >> > If windows is the boot manager ... > >> > Why update configuration in preupgrade change the boot flag, leaving an > >> > unbootable system or with other boot order? > >> > Sure, it's easy fixable but not desirable. > >> > So why? > >> > >> How is preupgrade supposed to change the windows bootloader? If you > >> think you have to use the windows bootloader, you have to fix it every > >> update/upgrade > >> > >> -- > >> LG Thomas > >> > >> Dubium sapientiae initium > > By the way, > > Do you understand what the boot flag is and for what? > > Hint: "fdisk /dev/sda" and toggle boot flag. > > > > So why to change this on upgrading in some environments? > > Preupgrade never changed a boot flag here. And i have "some" > environments. What i do not have is a windows and i would never use > the windows bootloader. But to each their own. So, what are you doing, > or with other words, what's so special in your environment? Playing > around with bootorder in bios to workaround some mess? > > -- > LG Thomas > > Dubium sapientiae initium This also hapen on Windows Vista / Windows 7 and Fedora 10/11/12 on Intel or Athlon systems (I tested only x32 configurations). Cristian Sava -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
