a) is true only if you are writing the boot information to the partition.
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
> For your Linux partition to be bootable, it:
>
> a) Must be a PRIMARY partition type.
> b) Must have LILO installed on the superblock of the partition.
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