On 11/22/2013 01:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
That's untrue. syslinux/extlinux both use jump code in LBA 0 that likewise jumps to the start LBA for the partition with the active bit set. There's also an old freebsd boot manager that let's the user choose which partition to boot from, in effect a faux (impermanent) setting of the active bit.
My hard disk still starts with an old partition with Win98SE on it, partly because I've never bothered to go through it and take off (or archive) anything I might want some day. I haven't tried to boot it in several years, but the active flag is still set. Grub and Grub2 have always ignored it.
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