Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:51:25AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:It's kind of dumb to show the "Bootable flag" for certain partition types (like swap), I think it would be better to not show it when it makes no difference, so as not to confuse the user unnecesarily.To the best of my knowledge, the bootable flag has no significance unless you have a DOS-family MBR.It is also significant on Macintosh partition tables, AIUI.
:-(( How could I forget.I don't know about Macintosh, but definitely Darwin on x86, at present I have a Darwin partition whose booter loops.
The point stands, with amendment: there are circumstances when the question need not be asked because there is no choice for the user to make.
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