Re: Reconfigure to boot from extended partition?

NoOp wrote:

On 08/27/2007 09:38 AM, Rashkae wrote:
NoOp wrote:
[snip]


The drive your bios boots from is always hd0 to grub. If you plan on
removing the Windows drive often, I would switch them around so Linux is
always on Drive 0 and windows is on drive 1. (This will require a minor
edit to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file for Windows to boot.), but if Linux
is on hda and windows on hdb, then you will no longer have to edit the
boot options when you want to boot Ubuntu with the Windows drive removed.


Thanks! That makes sense.

All that said (and correctly), I think you might actually have been asking
about the "bootable" flag on the partition table, and afaik it's completely
irrelevant to Linux - only Windows cares about that flag.
--
derek


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