Bootable partitions

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:03:59AM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know if actually marking a partition as "Bootable" really
> matters?  We're trying to partition some drives in an automated
> fashion (using FAI) in orer to test some software
> installation/upgrading procedures. Unfortunately, FAI only allows for
> a single partition to be marked as "Bootable".  
> 
> This seems like a silly and arbitraty restriction, unfortunately,
> circumventing it is going to be a pain.  If it doesn't matter, I won't
> bother, otherwise I'll probably have to write a post-install script
> which wraps around sfdisk.

I don't think it matters, not if you have LILO or GRUB in the MBR.

-Mark
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