[wellylug] Bootloader Problems?

[Phillip Rose]

At 10:15 18/04/04 +1200, David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

>I'm not sure marking a partition as 'bootable' really makes any difference
>to linux bootloaders. The BIOS certainly doesn't care since it has nothing
>to do with partitions anyway, and I don't think GRUB or LILO care either.
>They are smart enough to work without that DOS relic.
>

In my experience (OK, only once!) marking the appropriate partition
*seemed* to be the one thing that allowed me to boot, whereas before I
could not boot from /dev/hda. I just went back and experimented. I first
unmarked (toggled "boot" off) the root partition, and later marked an
incorrect partition as bootable. In both instances the machine booted (via
LILO) into Linux no prob. I must have had some other problem before, but
now I don't know what it was! Anyway, thanks for that.

--Phillip