>> Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason >> to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it?
I agree. I never encountered anything like this. LILO can do those things, but you have to explicitly configure lilo to do such a thing (what does lilo.conf look like?). I don't think diskdrake is capable to configure LILO to do partition-hiding / activation while booting. How did you configure XOSL? Did you install Linux on a primary or logical partition? Does it occur each time after you booted Linux or just after install? My first guess would be the configuration of XOSL. Maybe it could be some idiot program which executes lilo -A ... at boot time (you realy installed everything?), but I doubt it.
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