On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM Steve Underwood <coppic...@gmail.com> 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 Debian 12 installers are not setting the boot flag in > the MBR. Is there a good reason why these newer installers are doing > this, or is it a bug? Since there seems to be no warning to check this > flag after the install is complete it certainly feels like a bug.
Switch to GPT. MBR is so 1990's. GPT does not need an active, bootable partition. It happens automatically with ESP. And GPT is not limited to four partitions. Then, reload the operating system. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
