Bug#333058: Issue resolved, still an issue for the Debian installer

[Jon Levin]

This is embarrassing, yet I feel that the Debian installer needs some 
work. I created a /boot partition and labeled it /boot. Common sense 
would lead one to think that this would also trigger the boot flag on 
that partition. If not, then I would assume that using /dev/hda would 
install to the mbr and this would not be an issue. Installing to the mbr 
failed just the same as providing a /boot partition.

This makes the install quite user unfriendly. I am a 8 year veteran of 
Linux and have done at least a thousand installs. Admittedly, not with 
debian or ubuntu. This happened both with Debian and Ubuntu.

I have also done successful Debian Sarge installs recently, therefore 
even I at one time realized that the bootable flag needed to be 
triggered then. Just not now.

I do find this brain dead on my part, yet also not user friendly for the 
"common noob" as well.

I feel that this ticket should be sent back to debian installer group 
for further development.

Thank you to all volunteers for your great hard work!

Jon