Anton Zinoviev wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:23:10PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:reassign 250865 partman retitle 250865 warn if not partition is bootable severity 250865 minor thanks partman should also set the bootable flag automatically if there's none already.Only on i386 I guess. What if both the root and /boot partitions are logical and not primary? Parted (and partman) allow bootable logical partitions but I have no idea whether bootable logical partitions are usefull for anything.
Most boot managers don't requre bootable partitions for anything.In my environment only Darwin uses the bootable flag, and atm I can't boot darwin at all on my dual-boot system.
OS/2 can boot from a logical partition: what the OS/2 bootmananger does with active flags, if anything, I don't know. I sispect nothing as otherwise the code in the MBR would get confused.
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