Frans,
I witnessed the same confusion myself; in retrospect, I should've
mentioned it. I simply assumed that it was a graphical glitch of some
kind. I was unable to set the "bootable flag" as well and had been
setting the BIOS boot area flag (bios_grub) as well. I'm not clear as
to the semantic of that flag, but that's what I have set at the moment
and it seems to be booting my machine correctly. I'd be glad to provide
more information at request, but I'm not terribly familiar with GPT, so
I'm not sure what's relevant. :)
Thanks,
Zach
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
│ Bootable flag: off │
│ off │
Note the extra line with 'off' below the 'Bootable flag' line. That
could be caused by bootable flag, but possibly also a different flag.
OK, that was possibly an unrelated issue. The second line was for the 'BIOS
boot area flag' for which the description is not correctly displayed.
I've committed a fix for that.
Toggling Bootable flag does not work (it remains 'off'), but toggling
the line below changes it from 'off' to 'on'.
Toggling the bootable flag still does not have any effect. It should be
supported: VALID_FLAGS in the partman log has: boot, hidden, raid, lvm,
hp-service, msftres, bios_grub.
I can see the flag is getting set correctly, but when libparted reads the
current flags again, it's not there.
Zacharay: is the problem really with the "bootable flag", or rather with
that 'BIOS boot area' (bios_grub) flag?
It looks as if setting bios_grub may remove the raid flag. Could it be that
a 'BIOS boot area' partition simply cannot be a RAID partition? That seems
quite logical...
To test with that display issue corrected, you need to make the following
change in /lib/partman/active-partition/67toggle_biosgrub/choices before
you run partman:
-description=$(stralign -25 "$RET")
+description="$RET"
if [ $biosgrub = yes ]; then
db_metaget partman-partitioning/text/on description
- printf "nobiosgrub\t%s%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
+ printf "nobiosgrub\t%s\${!TAB}%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
else
db_metaget partman-partitioning/text/off description
- printf "biosgrub\t%s%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
+ printf "biosgrub\t%s\${!TAB}%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
fi
I'll test a bit more myself too.
Cheers,
FJP
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