Grub MBR an enigma

[Thorny]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:55:48 -0500, allen meyers posted:
>[...] I more then likely end up not being able to boot until I put in
>gpated and remove what appears to be one too mant boot on flag on a given
>partition. Could someone point me to an explanation

Okay, Allen it occurs to me that you must be talking about boot flag, what
is sometimes called a partition that is marked "active". It really doesn't
matter for GNU/Linux. GRUB doesn't care about a partition being marked
active, it will go and boot from the partition identified as the root in
the GRUB menu.lst using the kernel image identified in the line that is
usually just below the "root" line.

That active partition is a DOS/Windows thing from the old days and I don't
know if even Windows still cares about that. Someone who uses modern
Windows can jump in here with info about that. Maybe Derek, he probably
has to support Windows at the college or anyone who is reading and who
knows.