On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Carl Spalletta wrote: > >> 2) In order to boot off hda6 (I am getting my bootloader > >> off a floppy) do I have to make hda6 'bootable' in the > >> partition table? > > >Nope. > > Yes I have found this to be true - but then - what is the > significance of setting the bootable flag in the partition tbl? It varies according to your primary boot loader. The regular default loader (the one that's installed when you buy a hard disk -- who wrote it? Microsoft? IBM? Phoenix?), uses the bootable flag to choose which partition's boot sector to load. LILO ignores the bootable flag entirely. Grub and others I don't know about. Alan Stern -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
