One thing which was interesting was that this was a second attempt. During the first attempt the Debian installer said it needed to change the partition table of the SDD although it wasn't clear to me why. I thought the not bootable problem might be that the root partition was too high up (I had located it near the end of the 120GB drive) so I redid the install with the partition located at around the 40GB mark and then it didn't mention anything about changing the partition table. But I still get BIBM telling me that the partition is not bootable.
I've successfully installed this OS on a hard drive so I don't know what the problem is.
When I looked at the partition properties it said that the location of this partition would prevent some OS's from booting from it. Could someone explain what could be wrong with the location?
I have been able to install Linux Mint 11 on this SSD (which also has the "the location of this partition would prevent some OS's from booting from it" message and is a derivative of Debian) without any problems. I also have then used this OS to mount the new Debian root partition to have a look at it although I don't really know what to look at. I had a look at the fstab file which is as follows:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdc2 during installation
UUID=e0834fe0-2380-49be-a92b-1926398f3f7b / ext4 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dataD was on /dev/sdb4 during installation
UUID=1A3B-0200 /dataD vfat utf8,uid=1000,gid=46,shortname=mixed 0 0
# /dataE was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=211E-0200 /dataE vfat utf8,uid=1000,gid=46,shortname=mixed 0 0
# /old was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=3ec0812a-5a16-4867-bf39-6b1aef2fe5cf /old ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=90b862b2-d953-4301-b437-09dd63968297 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0