On a number of Dell laptops (and perhaps others?), booting stops during POST with an error message 'Invalid Partition Table!' Pressing Enter allows booting to proceed, and the machine works as expected. It's an irritation rather than a show-stopper, but worth fixing IMHO.
I finally tracked this down to the BIOS needing the boot flag to be set on the partition you want to boot from to recognise that drive as a valid boot device. At present, the installer doesn't do this; bearing in mind my total lack of understanding as to what would be involved, would it be possible to set the boot flag when the partitions are created by the installer?
For anyone in this position, if you boot live from the install media, you can add the boot flag to the correct partition from GParted.
Chris
Minor change to installer - set boot flag
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Minor change to installer - set boot flag
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Home-built desktop - Core i5 9400, 970 EVO Plus, 8GB
DELL XPS 15
Lots of test machines
Re: Minor change to installer - set boot flag
I do believe this can be set when setting up your partitions.
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