Bug#266565: when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be marked bootable

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:55:23AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Package: partman
> Severity: minor
> 
> 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.

Please don't do that on amiga partition tables, as this is broken behavior
there, as the boot flag is only used on amigaos or morphos, not for linux, and
is used to indicate a working amigaos/morphos system partition.

Friendly,

Sven Luther