On 08/16/2009 05:00 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the MBR. > He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to > install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got > to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error > number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that > the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows > one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition > active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which > partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved > fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the > active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was > active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active > partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate? Sorry for the very late followup, but after clean installing F12, I see that the F12 installer has again switched the active partition from the Windows partition (/dev/sda1) back to the Linux /boot partition (/dev/sda2). I'll have to switch it back again to avoid future problems with Windows updates. [root@compaq-pc ~]# man fdisk Formatting page, please wait... [root@compaq-pc ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x031a25b1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 10444 83886080 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 * 10444 10469 204800 83 Linux /dev/sda3 10469 30401 160103424 8e Linux LVM [root@compaq-pc ~]#
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