bootable partitions

ohfred · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 19

if say i wanna boot windows and linux.. do i have to set bootable partitions using fdisk in BOTH the windows and linux partition? However, if i set bootable to 2 partitions the booting process gives an error : INVALID PARTITION TABLE... please advice..

knefas · l33t Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 828

can you post both your partition table and your grub.conf/lilo.conf?

AFAIK you have to set bootable just for the windows one.

Anon5710 · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:

NO you just wanne set the bootflag to one of the two.
You can choose wichone.

A few pages further in the manual, you will be requird to install a boot loader, LILO or GRUB this allows you to get a menu at startup so u can choose wichone you would like to boot. Gentoo or windows in tyhis case

butters · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

You only need to lable a partition bootable if the bootloader resides on that partition. If you install grub/lilo to the MBR and boot windows and linux from that bootloader, you only need to set windows bootable because its bootloader is chain-loaded.
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