Michael Haan wrote: > On 6/24/05, Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Colin wrote: >> >> >>> >>>A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or >>>part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This >>>might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium >>>systems. Name-brand computers always have some proprietary "feature" >>>to keep us power users away (like warranties, or older Dells' >>>nonstandard power supplies). >>>-- >>>Colin >>> >> >>When you ran fdisk and created all your partitions, did you flag one of >>them as bootable? >> >>-- >>Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) >>Westbank, B. C >> >>-- >>[email protected] mailing list >> >> > > > I did what I always do: > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 > /dev/hda2 swap > /dev/hda3 / reiser > > and I don't recall ever flagging anything as bootable (other than > installing grub) to the MBR. Where do you flag partitions as bootable > in fdisk? >
Yes, fdisk can toggle the boot flag on a partition. It's not very logical for the bios to look at the partition table though. It really only needs to be interested in the boot loader part of the mbr. Zac -- [email protected] mailing list
