Bootable partitions

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:15:13AM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  I remember the restriction of only one bootable flag per drive.  I 
think it goes back to DOS days.

-Mark
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