On Thursday 26 November 2009, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > _Description: Go back to the menu and correct this problem? > > Your boot partition has not been marked as a bootable partition, even > > though this is required by your machine in order to boot. Please go > > back and set the bootable flag for your boot partition. > > . > > If you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct this > > error, the partition will be used as is. This means that you may not > > be able to boot from your hard disk. > > Why not just ask the user if d-i should mark the partition as bootable? > I'm not sure if this is easily implementable, but if it is, I think this > would be user friendlier than the proposed solution. > > E.g something along the lines of: Your boot partition is not marked as > bootable. Should it be marked as bootable?
I'm not sure which platform this is about exactly, but the rule "the /boot partition must be marked bootable" is not correct for all cases. In general (at least on x86) the rule is "the partition *on which the bootloader is installed* should be marked bootable (and in the case the bootloader is installed in the MBR, that's the first partition). There is nothing that guarantees the bootloader is installed in the /boot partition, or that the /boot partition is the first partition on the disk. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
