Bug#623946: grub-pc: M/C unbootable if primary bootable flag not set

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:05:07PM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
> I moved my boot  partition to a logical sector
> Running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc said it had gone through without error
> However the disk remained unbootable until a primary (or extended) partition
> was flagged as bootable
> 
> It would be good if grub install were to warn about installing to a logical
> partition with bootable flag set

I don't think this is any of GRUB's business, honestly.  GRUB itself
doesn't care whether the partition is marked bootable or not.  If
anything cares, it will be your BIOS - but only some BIOSes care about
this.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]