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Bug 142033 - 2006.0 x86 ncurses installer does not set bootable flag
Summary: 2006.0 x86 ncurses installer does not set bootable flag
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Installer
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: 152702 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-07-28 13:36 UTC by Roy Bamford
Modified: 2006-10-24 14:34 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Roy Bamford gentoo-dev 2006-07-28 13:36:41 UTC 
Installing with the ncurses installer from livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso, fdisk does not mark any partition bootable.
With some BIOSes this causes the well known "Invalid System Disk" error from the BIOS. 

Manually adding the bootable flag fixed it. 
Harware PEAK630VL Industrial P3 Single Board Computer
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-07-28 13:54:44 UTC 
We've gotten a similar bug before from a user, but it was decided that the installer would not do this, especially since the current code does not allow the user to select *which* partition has the bootable flag.
Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-24 14:34:26 UTC 
*** Bug 152702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***