Ubiquity doesn't complain about bootable XFS partitions

[Baishampayan Ghose]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When installing Ubuntu Dapper using Ubiquity, I mistakenly chose XFS for my root (/) partition. The limitation of XFS is that a bootable partition can never be XFS. But Ubiquity silently ignored the issue and went on with the installation. Later when trying to set the bootable flag it failed miserably with a traceback. I didn't realise the problem due to lack of any message or warning from Ubiquity.
Later when I tried using Anaconda (FC5), it popped up a message saying that XFS partitions can't be bootable. I think Ubiquity should do something like that too.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks, but I'm already intimately familiar with this issue. See bug 47848.

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

XFS _can_ be a /boot partition. Our installers just break this somehow.

It does work this way:
http://blog.pcode.nl/2006/08/22/sgi-xfs-and-its-competition/