Bug#567590: Reproducable

[Zachary Palmer <zep_debbug@bahj.com>]

Frans,

I witnessed the same confusion myself; in retrospect, I should've 
mentioned it.  I simply assumed that it was a graphical glitch of some 
kind.  I was unable to set the "bootable flag" as well and had been 
setting the BIOS boot area flag (bios_grub) as well.  I'm not clear as 
to the semantic of that flag, but that's what I have set at the moment 
and it seems to be booting my machine correctly.  I'd be glad to provide 
more information at request, but I'm not terribly familiar with GPT, so 
I'm not sure what's relevant.  :)

Thanks,

Zach
> On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
>   
> >   │         Bootable flag:    off                                    │
> >   │         off                                                      │
> >
> > Note the extra line with 'off' below the 'Bootable flag' line. That
> > could be caused by bootable flag, but possibly also a different flag.
> >     
>
> OK, that was possibly an unrelated issue. The second line was for the 'BIOS 
> boot area flag' for which the description is not correctly displayed.
> I've committed a fix for that.
>
>   
> > Toggling Bootable flag does not work (it remains 'off'), but toggling
> > the line below changes it from 'off' to 'on'.
> >     
>
> Toggling the bootable flag still does not have any effect. It should be 
> supported: VALID_FLAGS in the partman log has: boot, hidden, raid, lvm, 
> hp-service, msftres, bios_grub.
> I can see the flag is getting set correctly, but when libparted reads the 
> current flags again, it's not there.
>
>
> Zacharay: is the problem really with the "bootable flag", or rather with 
> that 'BIOS boot area' (bios_grub) flag?
>
> It looks as if setting bios_grub may remove the raid flag. Could it be that 
> a 'BIOS boot area' partition simply cannot be a RAID partition? That seems 
> quite logical...
>
> To test with that display issue corrected, you need to make the following 
> change in /lib/partman/active-partition/67toggle_biosgrub/choices before 
> you run partman:
>
> -description=$(stralign -25 "$RET")
> +description="$RET"
>
>  if [ $biosgrub = yes ]; then
>         db_metaget partman-partitioning/text/on description
> -       printf "nobiosgrub\t%s%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
> +       printf "nobiosgrub\t%s\${!TAB}%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
>  else
>         db_metaget partman-partitioning/text/off description
> -       printf "biosgrub\t%s%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
> +       printf "biosgrub\t%s\${!TAB}%s\n" "$description" "${RET}"
>  fi
>
> I'll test a bit more myself too.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
>