On 01/30/2013 04:10 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
While other OSs do not care, the BIOS may care. Some BIOS will not boot at all if there isn't a partition marked as bootable. Also, it may boot from the drive with the bootable partition regardless of the boot order. Systems not wanting to boot with a partition marked as bootable has come up on the list many times in the past.
There's nothing wrong with having the Linux /boot partition marked as bootable if it makes the BIOS happy. I was just pointing out that Linux won't care. Right now, my desktop's main drive still has an old Win98 partition that I've kept because it's easier than copying off whatever I'm going to need and hoping that I haven't forgotten anything important. The Win98 partition I don't use is marked bootable, rather than the Linux /boot partition I've been using for about seven years or so. If your BIOS wants it, or it makes you feel better, by all means mark Linux as bootable; just understand that the OS itself doesn't need it.
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