No bootable partition after Ubuntu install

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 18:03:15 UTC 2008


On 05/04/2008, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Make sure that BIOS is configured to boot from the drive with the boot loader.
>  >
>
> It is.  GAG comes up fine.  I can boot into my other OSs with no
>  problem.  It's just that /dev/sda1 is not a bootable partition and I
>  need to make it so.
>
>  Any ideas?
>

Use fdisk to make the partition bootable. It's the a command.

Dotan Cohen

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