Bug#635968: installation-reports: Initial boot after installation failed

[Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>]

Hi,

> Can you verify this by clearing the boot flag you now
> have and seeing if your system will boot after that?
Yes, I tried that: The system showed exactly the same error about not being 
able to find a bootable device if the boot flag is unset, and after setting it 
again, things now work like before.


> So far, I for one haven't seen a system which requires a
> partition _table_ to boot, not to mention a bootable
> partition in it.  BIOS merely loads first 512 bytes of
> a disk into memory and jumps into that area, without
> trying to interpret what's inside.  Unless you use some
> recovery/diagnostic mode which is embedded into some
> BIOSes/machines.
Well, that was my understanding as well, but my laptop just proofed us wrong 
;-) . Maybe this is related to the "mainboard firmware" actually being some EFI 
or UEFI thingy with a BIOS compatibility layer. In any case, the Ubuntu 
installer deals with this correctly, I never had any issues booting from HDD 
before trying Debian as main OS (CDs are a different matter though).

Kind regards,
Ralf