Bug#333058: Issue resolved, still an issue for the Debian installer

2005-10-25 Thread Jason Thomas
Hi Jon, I'm at a loss as to what the problem is. Generally people install grub into the boot sector of the drive. Which is loaded by the bios on boot. Nothing to mark as bootable here. Grub does not require a partition to be marked bootable in order to boot the operating system on it. On Tue, O

Bug#333058: Issue resolved, still an issue for the Debian installer

2005-10-11 Thread Jon Levin
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 m