Bootable partitions

Darrell Michaud dmichaud at amergin.org
Mon Mar 13 10:23:00 EST 2006


I think that the bootable flag is used to help the BIOS guess where to
look for boot code if it's not in the MBR. If you put a boot loader on the
MBR, you can ignore this flag.

Paul Lussier said:
> Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> writes:
>
>> I don't think it matters, not if you have LILO or GRUB in the MBR.
>
> Then what's the point of this flag?  Is it merely a legacy thing which
> used to mean something before (somewhat) intelligent bootloaders came
> along?
>
> --
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
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