[GRLUG] ubuntu/kubuntu boot issues

[zdennis]

Adam Bultman wrote:
> Topher, the partitioner acts as you tell it to.  Are they doing the
> autopartitioning, or are they doing it themselves?
> 
> I've never had a ubuntu install fail, and I'm currently workstationing
> on a laptop (PIII 450!) that I manually partitioned. Here's what it
> looks like:
> 
> 5.25G:  /  bootable, reiserfs,
> 768M : swap
> 
> That's it.  Perhaps those people set up their partitions wrong? If you
> don't set the partition to 'bootable', your system won't boot.  I don't
> consider the ubuntu setup program to be idiot proof (well, I haven't
> used the breezy install disks - I have a local mirror, so I just upgrade
> from hoary over the network) but it should be fairly easy...

I do believe if you wipe a hard drive, and you dont make a partition bootable, that the installer 
will NOT complain. And you'll get this error...

I can always start a ubuntu install on an extra box at work and run through the scenario to make 
sure if you're interested. =)

Zach