steve.m
April 8th, 2019, 10:32 PM
Hi, please consider this to be a bug report.
I installed lubuntu on a relatively old computer (an Intel Atom D510MO). On trying to run the installed system, the computer BIOS displayed a message about no bootable device found. After many false starts at debugging this issue, I pulled out the disk with the installed lubuntu on it and tried it on another, more modern, computer. That computer had no trouble booting the system. I finally narrowed down the problem to the "bootable" flag on the lubuntu partition. After the disk partition was set to be bootable, the old computer runs the system with no problem.
The old computer has an old hard drive, about 4 years old, with a standard Ubuntu system on it. That hard drive has the boot partition marked bootable. I did not set that flag. The drive was brand new and the installer used the whole drive for linux. So, I think it was not long ago that the Ubuntu installer knew to set the bootable flag.
Granting that most computer BIOSes now are smarter, I think that failure to support innocent old hardware with old-fashioned BIOS constitutes a bug in the linux installer. Ubuntu people, please fix the installer!
I installed lubuntu on a relatively old computer (an Intel Atom D510MO). On trying to run the installed system, the computer BIOS displayed a message about no bootable device found. After many false starts at debugging this issue, I pulled out the disk with the installed lubuntu on it and tried it on another, more modern, computer. That computer had no trouble booting the system. I finally narrowed down the problem to the "bootable" flag on the lubuntu partition. After the disk partition was set to be bootable, the old computer runs the system with no problem.
The old computer has an old hard drive, about 4 years old, with a standard Ubuntu system on it. That hard drive has the boot partition marked bootable. I did not set that flag. The drive was brand new and the installer used the whole drive for linux. So, I think it was not long ago that the Ubuntu installer knew to set the bootable flag.
Granting that most computer BIOSes now are smarter, I think that failure to support innocent old hardware with old-fashioned BIOS constitutes a bug in the linux installer. Ubuntu people, please fix the installer!