On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: | 01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote: | | > The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that | > flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it | > only cares if you use an MS boot loader, it may not matter when you | > chainload the windows boot loader. OTOH it may be that windows needs | > the windows partition to be "bootable". | | Is this so? I think. Let's see # cfdisk /dev/hda I have no "bootable" partitions on this system. The partitions are /, /home and swap. grub is on the MBR. The router machine I have has / and swap, grub on the MBR. / is marked bootable on it. I just unflagged it, but with 59 days of uptime and no floppy or cd drive I'm not rebooting it yet :-). I don't have convenient access to the laptop from work right now (which dual-boots win2k and debian) otherwise I'd check its state. | I thought, that if for example I install LILO in /dev/hda3 (instead of | in the mbr), this partition has to be bootable too. | | OK, this does not mean, that lilo cares about it, but a relation | between the two is still there, even without M$ | | But after all, I may be totally wrong here since I use mbr. I don't use the 'mbr' loader. It's possible that it cares. You could find out :-). Have a rescue or installer disk handy first in case I'm wrong! -D -- If you hold to [Jesus'] teaching, you are really [Jesus'] disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:31-32 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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