On Saturday 29 December 2007 01:11:28 pm Stan Goodman wrote: > I don't know what to make of this. On my system, three partitions are > marked as "Bootable": > > OS/2, > The failed-updated v10.2 that didn't turn into v10.3, and > The newly installed v10.3 maintenance partition.
I used 'bootable partition' as synonym for the one that system will boot from, ie. the one that has valid boot code (program) in it's boot sector and it is marked as such in partition table. Here, /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda3 can be bootable, but only /dev/sda3 is marked as 'Boot' which is 'cfdisk' term for 'bootable'. It should be only one active (bootable) partition, otherwise the state is undefined and what will be picked up depends on bootloader design. The generic boot code is not GRUB. I guess it belongs to FreeDOS. GRUB is installed in boot sector of active partition, not all 3 on your system, but the one that you told to be used during installation. Though, Felix read your post carefully and noticed some unusual menu items :-) -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
