> > Is this really an improvement? If I have two bootable partitions, at > > least one of them will boot now, letting me fix the problem. If you > > refuse to boot, now I need to dig around in my toy box for a floppy > > drive or something before I can fix it. I would prefer booting into > > the wrong OS over not booting any day. > > If that is the case, why not take the check for 55AA out as well? > It would be better to complain about malformed/corrupted MBR's, > rather than silently continuing. The question that would arise > for me immediately, is how did it get messed up? Disk corruption? > Or something else?
There's a huge difference between garbage in the mbr, and user error causing two partitions to be marked as active. Miod
