[CentOS] centos 5.2 install: mbr or no bootloader ?
Julian Thomas
jt at jt-mj.net
Tue May 19 13:08:33 UTC 2009
On Mon, 18 May 2009 15:58:26 -0700 jackson byers wrote:
>
>
>One peculiarity:
>I believe I was given the choice of:
>--installing the bootloader into mbr
>or
>--no bootloader install
>
>I did not want my mbr overwritten, so I chose no bootloader
>
>Why is there no choice of 1st sector of root partition?
>
>or did I just miss it?
You need to select 'install bootloader' to the hard disk, and then advanced options, where you can tell it to install
it to /boot instead of MBR. You should have created /boot in the partitioning stage.
I assume you are using some other boot manager.
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