On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:56 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Ah, the makeactive thingie may have something to do with it. That > sets the "active" flag in the partition table on the disk so the OS > marks that as /dev/sda. I don't see why it has to have that effect. It just means that this partition is bootable. > There can only be one "active" partition in the system. DOS and early > Windows systems use that flag to know where they were booted from. > It shouldn't be necessary for a Linux kernel, grub or lilo. I have a system with three drives, each have an active partition. It works without any problems, including being able to boot Windows from one of them. As far as I was aware, the issue was to help the BIOS provide a list of which were the bootable choices, not the OS. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
