Bug#532440: documentation: 4.3.3.: mention that bootable flag should be set?

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20090123lenny1
Severity: wishlist

I tried to follow the instruction at
http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en as closely as
possible:

$ sudo syslinux /dev/sda1
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ (cd /mnt; sudo wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz)
$ (cd /mnt; sudo wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux)
$ (cd /mnt; sudo sh -c 'echo -en "default linux\nappend initrd=initrd.gz\n" > syslinux.cfg')
$ install-mbr /dev/sda1
$ sudo umount /mnt

but when I tried to boot from the usb stick I got the error message
"no bootable partition found". I ran cfdisk and noticed that indeed
bootable flag indeed is not set. Shouldn't the manual mention that?




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28lindi1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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[Frans Pop-3]

tag 532440 pending
thanks

On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> but when I tried to boot from the usb stick I got the error message
> "no bootable partition found". I ran cfdisk and noticed that indeed
> bootable flag indeed is not set. Shouldn't the manual mention that?

I've added a short footnote.

Thanks,
FJP



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