Installer hanging

[Gary W. Swearingen]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> Tell me, does Ubuntu need a seperate /boot partition? Or can I just
> make / bootable?

No, though a (very?) few want one.  Yes, but it's unnecessary.
>
> Also, if I have a /boot partition, does / need to be bootable?

The "/" partition NEVER needs to be bootable unless you're using
a boot loader (eg, M$DOS MBR) that cares about the bootable flag.
Grub and Lilo boot loaders ignore it.