Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-02-25 Thread Steve Underwood
On 22/01/2025 21:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM Steve Underwood wrote: I just bought a new SSD, installed Fedora 41 on it to occupy the whole disk, and it wouldn't boot. I tried Debian 12 and again it wouldn't boot. I then tried Debian 11 and all was well. Afterwards

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-02-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/25/25 2:42 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: I thought I'd post a follow up about this, after doing more installs. I agree that the time of the MBR should have passed for any hardware that is not ancient. I thought that Fedora 41 and Debian 12 were putting an MBR on the disc, because they had de

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 17:06 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Maybe there's an option in Thunderbird to start a new thread when the > subject: changes? That kind of thing causes its own problems. Any significant change to a subject line (to it, but not to you) branches off a new thread (or branches

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 1/22/25 15:12, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The problem derives from using Reply instead of New Message (or whatever the equivalent is in TB). Oop! New Message ctrl-N -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe s

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 1/22/25 15:12, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The problem derives from using Reply instead of New Message (or whatever the equivalent is in TB). Thunderbird reply options: Replyctrl-R Reply Allctrl-shift-R Reply List ctrl-shift-L --

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 17:06 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 19:22 +, Steve Underwood wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Please don't hijack threads. You posted your question as a reply to a > > different top

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 19:22 +, Steve Underwood wrote: > > [...] > > Please don't hijack threads. You posted your question as a reply to a > different topic and then changed the Subject line. That doesn't work > properly on mailing

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 19:22 +, Steve Underwood wrote: [...] Please don't hijack threads. You posted your question as a reply to a different topic and then changed the Subject line. That doesn't work properly on mailing lists (and MUAs) that pay attention to the In- Reply-To header. You need t

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM Steve Underwood wrote: > > I just bought a new SSD, installed Fedora 41 on it to occupy the whole > disk, and it wouldn't boot. I tried Debian 12 and again it wouldn't > boot. I then tried Debian 11 and all was well. Afterwards I checked and > the Fedora 41 and Debi