Grub MBR an enigma

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Mar 30 12:04:51 UTC 2009


allen meyers wrote:


> 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

What's a "boot ID"?  It's possible that having the boot flag on two
partitions might not work, I've never tried it.  otoh, not having the boot
flag set on any partitions wouldn't prevent booting.  
-- 
derek





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