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Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Thread Started on Jan 24, 2011, 1:43pm »
I just installed SalineOS 1.0 for the 2nd time. This time with a home partition, which I will copy to /etc/skel bfore installing the next release.
When I rebooted, grub wouldn't load. I remembered to set the root partition boot flag for my 1st installation, but not this time.
I then rebooted from the usb drive, ran gparted and set the boot flag. Now the boot process loads grub. Maybe Remastersys Installer could automatically set the boot flag on the root partition?
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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #1 on Jan 24, 2011, 3:17pm »
I do not have any partitions with the boot flag enabled and Saline OS boots fine. Did you install grub to /root?
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« Reply #2 on Jan 24, 2011, 4:17pm »
There is a small bug with the grub install right now. Grub install used to work fine with only /dev and /proc bind mounted to the target environment but the newer one requires /sys to be bind mounted as well. Next release of the remastersys will have the corrected grub stuff. What also happens now is that it doesn't always find the other distributions you have installed but adding the /sys bind mounted fixes that. Even with the new fixes os-prober which does the work to find the other distributions/OS' is buggy and when you run it again it finds more.

As for marking the partitions boot that shouldn't be needed by grub. Typically only windows boot loaders need that flag set.
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« Reply #3 on Jan 24, 2011, 5:24pm »
I normally use the MBR and for that reason I continue using the MBR or my computer will try to boot the previous installtion if I install grub on the root partiton.

I haven't used windoze since I retired in 2009. I know that my computer will not boot without the boot flag set on my root partitipn. It doesn't matter which distro of linux I install . It doesn't boot for haiku without the flag set either.

I have only installed haiku and linux distros on this machine. I installed haiku first and had some trouble getting my hard drive to boot. I think its because the way haiku formats a hard drive without a dos partition table. My hard drive had only low level formatting at the time.

After installing fedora with a "boot" patition, I was able to boot both it and haiku, but only with the fedora boot partition boot flag set.
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« Reply #4 on Jan 24, 2011, 7:41pm »
I leave all the partitioning stuff to gparted since it does everything including allow you to set the boot flag. I've never heard of having to mark a partition bootable in linux since the old lilo days.
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« Reply #5 on Jan 25, 2011, 12:32am »

Jan 24, 2011, 7:41pm, fragadelic wrote:
I leave all the partitioning stuff to gparted since it does everything including allow you to set the boot flag. I've never heard of having to mark a partition bootable in linux since the old lilo days.

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« Reply #6 on Jan 29, 2011, 6:03pm »
Or this could a suggestion for the manual under what to try if your new installation doesn't boot.
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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #7 on Jan 29, 2011, 10:24pm »

Jan 24, 2011, 7:41pm, fragadelic wrote:
I leave all the partitioning stuff to gparted since it does everything including allow you to set the boot flag. I've never heard of having to mark a partition bootable in linux since the old lilo days.



I used lilo up until Squeeze. Sometimes change is hard. update-grub is nice just to many place for it to look for config info.
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« Reply #8 on Jan 30, 2011, 2:02am »
Just installed ArchBang and the installer automatically set the boot flag on the new boot partition.

I believe it was Arch that first used grub as the default bootloader on a Slackware based OS.

You know who else has a great bootloader, Haiku, excellent boot loader. Its called bootman, for Boot Manager, and doesn't care if its grub, lilo or whatever. If it finds another OS on your hard drive, it boots it.

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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #9 on Feb 5, 2011, 8:28pm »
After some checking, I have determined that my motherboard's bios is requiring that a boot flag be set for the MBR to know which partition to startup.

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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #10 on Feb 5, 2011, 9:02pm »

Feb 5, 2011, 8:28pm, cristobal wrote:
After some checking, I have determined that my motherboard's bios is requiring that a boot flag be set for the MBR to know which partition to startup.



I did not know that such motherboards even existed ??? Learn something new everyday.
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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #11 on Feb 5, 2011, 10:38pm »

Feb 5, 2011, 8:28pm, cristobal wrote:
After some checking, I have determined that my motherboard's bios is requiring that a boot flag be set for the MBR to know which partition to startup.



I knew Intel did some strange things but that is really out there. Can you stop it in the BIOs?
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« Reply #12 on Feb 6, 2011, 1:33am »

Feb 5, 2011, 10:38pm, 62chevy wrote:

Feb 5, 2011, 8:28pm, cristobal wrote:
After some checking, I have determined that my motherboard's bios is requiring that a boot flag be set for the MBR to know which partition to startup.



I knew Intel did some strange things but that is really out there. Can you stop it in the BIOs?


No there is only boot options for usb, optical or hard drives. Partitions don't show up there.

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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #13 on Feb 6, 2011, 12:26pm »
Now I have to wonder if others do the same or if it a hold over from days gone by.
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Re: Remastersys Installer suggestion
« Reply #14 on Feb 6, 2011, 1:11pm »
I have a Intel® Desktop Board D101GGC with the same issue, Its pretty old. Intel tries to make their products MS compatible. From what I understand having a boot flag set is a requirement of a windows generated MBR.
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