Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:32:45 EDT rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, June 11, 2022 07:13:38 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > Welp, I did that, but the installer refuses to set the bootable flag
> > on that drive, it blinks the remote screen, but when its repainted,
> > its still off. I went thru the loop, even made a new gpt partition
> > table, but no joy. and all I have to show for it is a 5 megabyte
> > plus jpeg from my camera so you'll just have to take my word for it.
> >
> > I've not had a problem setting the bootable flag before. What might
> > be the reason?
>
> IIRC, the bootable flag is pretty much irrelevant in Linux -- it
> doesn't have to be set to boot from a partitions. Am I
> mis-remembering?
>
> .
IDK. but my hand is not on the old family bible. I'm going to make try
#28, 26 and 27 have already failed earlier today.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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