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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