FS#29348 - netinstall+syslinux - 'Set legacy boot flag and install mbr' fails

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Andrew Walrond (andrewpw) - Monday, 09 April 2012, 07:49 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 26 November 2012, 04:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version testbuild (specify!)
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I did a basic install using the latest netinstall image.
I choose automatic partitioning and the syslinux boot loader.

All went well until the final stage 'set legacy boot flag and install mbr' which failed. The error message on vt7 was unhelpful.

A GPT partition had been setup, but sgdisk was unavailable. Regardless, this is an old x86_64 laptop and the bios won't support a GPT bootloader, so I used fdisk to rewrite the MBR partition table, dd'ed the syslinux mbr and all was well.
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Monday, 26 November 2012, 04:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred

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