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

[Jason Thomas]

Hi Jon,

I'm at a loss as to what the problem is.

Generally people install grub into the boot sector of the drive. Which
is loaded by the bios on boot. Nothing to mark as bootable here.

Grub does not require a partition to be marked bootable in order to boot
the operating system on it.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:27:25AM -0700, Jon Levin wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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