Bootable partitions

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 10:32:00 EST 2006


On 3/13/06, Darrell Michaud <dmichaud at amergin.org> wrote:
> 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.

  The standard BIOS is ignorant of partitions and such.  All the BIOS
does is look for the boot signature and load the MBR.  After that,
it's up to whatever was there.  Hopefully it was boot code.  :)



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