Home » Forums » Linux » Linux kernel

boot flag?

Submitted by unclesam
on January 6, 2006 - 2:22am

What is the significance of boot flag set for every partition including windows as well as linux partitions...I mean it should be set for that partition from which boot process starts. If we set boot flag for every partition then what is the use of it?

This can be seen on doing fdisk options...

regards
US

‹ regarding the Unix Filesystem in Linux kernel 2.6 recompiling glibc ›

The old MSDOS/Win9x bootloade

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 6, 2006 - 7:16am

The old MSDOS/Win9x bootloader (and some others) would only work if exactly 1 primary partition was marked as bootable.

GRUB and LILO ignore the bootable flag (has no effect).
I don't know how NTLDR treats the bootable flag.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.