No check that there's a bootable partition
Bug #88460 reported by
Tom Womack
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #14244: Automatic partitioning reset boot flag in DOS partition table?.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: partman-base
Scenario: installing 6.10 from a USB stick prepared according to the instructions in http://
I was indecisive, so changed my mind while doing manual partitioning about whether / should be on RAID or not; as a result, I ended up in a situation where no partitions were bootable when the installer rebooted the computer.
Fixing this involved running the installer up to the partitioning stage, setting sda1 as bootable and as to be mounted as /, applying the repartitioning then rebooting.
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Sorry for the delay in replying to this.
This is basically bug 14244, and as of Ubuntu 7.10 there's now a horrible hack in the boot loader installation code to ensure that there's a bootable partition.