Bug 186255

Summary: YaST2 deletes MBR during installation
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2 Reporter: Holger Sickenberg <holgi>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: duwe, stefan.fent, suse-beta
Version: Alpha 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Found By: Other Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: YaST2.tgz

Description Holger Sickenberg 2006-06-19 14:54:53 UTC 
I selected to install GRUB on root partition (sda11) but the MBR got deleted during installation.
Comment 1 Holger Sickenberg 2006-06-19 15:20:13 UTC 
Created attachment 90346 [details]
YaST2.tgz
Comment 2 Stefan Fent 2006-10-25 09:55:01 UTC 
Depending on what you had on the szstem before, this might have been necessary.
MBR is just replaced by generic MBR, which makes sense in most cases.
Did you disable this in the checkbox?
Comment 3 Holger Sickenberg 2006-10-25 10:07:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 213256 ***