Kent West wrote: > I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I let > the install create partitions automatically, the bootable flag is set. > But if I unset it and then try to re-set it, or if I manually create > partitions, I can not set the bootable flag. It stays "off". It might be a bug. But is it an important bug? I think you can ignore it. As a technical fault I would only rate it as minor. As far as I know the bootable flag isn't important for anything these days. AFAIK it is only a piece of legacy lint left over in the system from the old days when MSDOS required it. As I recall at one time the MSDOS boot sequence required exactly one partition to have the bootable flag. But if you are booting with grub or another modern bootstraping loader and then it is booting the Linux kernel then I don't think anything actually looks at that flag. If it does then it would probably be very BIOS version dependent with some doing it and others ignoring it. YMMV. Bob
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