On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > I get to the point where I size the / partition on sda and then I go to > the line that says "bootable flag: off". I hit enter and I see > "Computing the new state of the partition table..." flash very quickly > on the screen with a progress bar (so fast that I have to hit enter > repeatedly to read it). The line still reads "bootable flag: off". > There seems to be no way to turn the bootable flag to "on," but it seems > that I need it to be on. > > That seems to be a problem, or I thought it was, because I later could > not boot. However, I see this... > > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1407682.html > > ...which suggests that I shouldn't worry about it. OK, I'll try it a > second time, but the first time I never got GRUB2 installed. I think > there might have been a second problem with the MBR. I'll let you know. It gets worse. This time I created two partitions in the RAID 1: / and /swap. That should have worked, but when I get to the part where it wants to start writing to disk, it can't do it. It couldn't install the package manager and it couldn't install GRUB. Mike