On 01/31/2012 08:42 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > > No? The grub and LILO MBR boot code doesn't care about the boot > flag. >
Those aren't really MBRs as much as bootloaders who stick themselves
in the MBR space. There is a series of "standard" MBRs that ship with
Syslinux for example, and there are others from other OSes -- it has
serious advantages in that it keeps multiple OSes from clobbering the
same piece of code.
-hpa
