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Re: How to set up the portable hard drive



On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 21:32 +0800, lina wrote:
>   No primary partitions are marked bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this.
>  reboot to updateToggle bootable flag of the current partitione(8), kpartx(8) or
> 
> if I just choose WRITE, it showed me above information in cfdisk interface.

Don't worry about that. Bootloaders of some (old) operating system need/use
this flag to figure out which partition they have to boot. It is not of any
relevance for Linux and even more so if you do not plan to boot from it.

See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_flag for a little more
information.
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