Public bug reported:
Ubuntu server failed to boot after installation on a brand new drive.
Installing ubuntu server 10.4 lucid yesterday
Using the unbuntu server install iso image (downloaded 4/May/2010).
Went throught the installation and selected the option to use the whole disk
and let ubuntu sort the partitions out. This was on a 2tb disk (if that is
relevant). Folowed the installation wizard and when it got to the grub
installation dialog it said it had not detected any other operating systems,
and I selected Yes to install grub. It installed on sda (there was only the
single disk on the machine) The install finished successfully. After it
rebooted, I got an Operating system not found message.
I repeated the install again two times, and the same problem occured.
I then booted off the install cd and selected the boot from first disk option.
This booted the installed os correctly.
Eventually I thought of checking the partitions in fdisk and the root partiotn
was not marked as "active". I set the partition to active in fdisk, saved the
settings and rebooted and this fixed the problem.
It seems that the setup has not checked if the boot partition was active
or not and had not set it to be active.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu server install fails to set active partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575657
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