On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:36:00PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Giuseppe Magnotta > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently, the mbr will not check it there are many bootable partition > > in the partition table. It simply start the first active partition it > > found. > > > > I've made a small modification that will check the partition status > > before going on. If there are no bootable partitions or there are many > > bootable partition it will print an error message and stop. > > 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.
I vote with Ted. Booting, even the wrong partition, seems better to me than not booting anything. .... Ken
