Grub MBR an enigma

[allen meyers]

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 12:01 -0400, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> I believe Windows requires that the partition it resides on to be marked
> active.
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> Andy Johnson
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> Thorny wrote:
> > 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.

So are we saying here that 2 different OS on 2 different drives can both
show the boot ID and be able to have a successful dual boot? Because
when I receive error 21 (cannot boot)and there is a boot ID on 2
different OS removing one allows me to dual boot

Allen
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