On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:05:07PM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: >> I moved my boot partition to a logical sector >> Running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc said it had gone through without error >> However the disk remained unbootable until a primary (or extended) partition >> was flagged as bootable >> >> It would be good if grub install were to warn about installing to a logical >> partition with bootable flag set > > I don't think this is any of GRUB's business, honestly. GRUB itself > doesn't care whether the partition is marked bootable or not. If > anything cares, it will be your BIOS - but only some BIOSes care about > this.
Exactly so -- in a logical world! Unfortunately Intel boards/BIOSes sometimes treat as unbootable a disk in which the bootable flag is on in a logical partition -- not so logical :D Also I agree that this is not a debian problem but primarily a grub issue so maybe I take it up there? In summary: a recipe for those reaching here through a search engine: 1. grub-install makes an unbootable system if a logical partition is marked as bootable (and says the installation is problem-free to boot !) 2. Just turn on the bootable flag on some (probably irrelevant) primary/extended partition 3. This is so at least for (some) intel boards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
