Bug#266565: marked as done (when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be marked bootable)
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Subject: when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be marked bootable
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Currently, if a partition's mountpoint defaults to /, and one sets it to
/boot, the disklabel changes along with it but the bootable flag should
also get set. In 99% of cases that's the correct thing to do. The other
1% of installs involves people with a separate special bootloader who
know what to do with it.. so I don't think it's harmful.
Thanks.
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Joshua Kwan
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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:39:14 +0200
From: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>
To: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>, 266565-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#266565: when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be marked bootable
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I am sorry for the delayed responce.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:55:23AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
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> Currently, if a partition's mountpoint defaults to /, and one sets it to
> /boot, the disklabel changes along with it but the bootable flag should
> also get set. In 99% of cases that's the correct thing to do. The other
> 1% of installs involves people with a separate special bootloader who
> know what to do with it.. so I don't think it's harmful.
At present on i386 partman does nothing about the bootable flag. By
default grub and lilo are installed in mbr so this flag has no meaning.
If the user decides to install the boot loader in another partition then
only the user knows which will be that partition (in this case I think
that grub and lilo installers have to change the bootable flag, not
partman). The partition to boot from is not necessarily the partition
containing /boot - it may be any partition. The boot partition contains
only the first stage of the boot loader, this first stage loader has the
job to load the other parts of the boot loader from the partition
containing /boot.
Anton Zinoviev
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