* On [27 Jul 2005 20:06 +0300] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I know is that if I do not specify as active the partition that I > want to boot, BIOS reports that it cannot find a boot device. This is > true regardless of whether the drive in question is fully Linux, fully > Winduhs, or dual-boot.
Actually, this is not true. If you install Grub or Lilo on the MBR you don't need to set an active partition. You only need an active partition if you decide to install the bootloader on a partition. In that case, the MBR (bootloader) would pass control to the active partition, and hopefully there will be some code there, another bootloader, to boot your operating system. Tarek -- "It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
