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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?

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Ah, that explains it. No problem.

Arno


In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage R. C. White <rc@grandecom.net> wrote:
> Hi, Paul.

> Yes, I probably should apologize to you and Rod and Arno - and Yousuf.  I'm 
> guilty of being focused solely on Windows, especially Win7.  I don't 
> normally read comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and didn't notice before my 
> Replies that Yousuf had cross-posted his question to that NG, as well as to 
> alt.windows7.general, where I was reading it.  If I had noticed, I would 
> have clarified that my remarks apply only to Windows.  In my youth <g> I 
> experimented with other OSes, up until about OS/2, but haven't looked at 
> Linux, or at other systems since then.

> Thanks for pointing out the differences in booting with non-Windows systems.

> RC
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> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
> Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3538.0513) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


> "Paul"  wrote in message news:jf4mfi$rqa$1@dont-email.me...

> R. C. White wrote:
>> Hi, Yousuf.
>>
>>>  Well, as I said, I removed all of the partitions previously marked as 
>>> "active", and it made no difference.
>>
>> Well, as I said, ONE partition on the boot device MUST be "active". 
>> That's the partition that will act as the "System Partition" - and that 
>> "System" label will appear in Disk Management's Status column for that 
>> partition.
>>

> This is true in Windows perhaps, but there are other OSes out there.
> The boot flag 0x80 is a "suggested serving". The MBR code can look at
> it, or ignore it. Windows OSes happen to like it.

> I didn't know about this, until one day I had an OS
> disk with a Linux distro on it, and no boot flag. Unlike these guys,
> I didn't even know there were install options for grub. Grub is a
> big mystery to me, and having a grub and grub2 (two streams) doesn't help.

> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/what-is-this-bootable-flag-562885/

>    "If you installed grub to MBR, it will boot with or without bootflag"

> Virtually every time I install a grub, I get a surprise. For example,
> I thought grub stage 1.5 was stored in sectors below 63, and just two
> days ago, found a virtually completely clean first 63 sectors, with
> no hint of grub at all. Just too many variables, for me to keep track of.

>   Paul 


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  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-16 13:40 +0000
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                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-18 03:22 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 16:05 -0500
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      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:29 +0000
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