On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:22:02 -0600 Burton Samograd <burton.samog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table > > entries (primary and secondary) on the bootdrive that > > are marked as "active". > > Reading the grub docs, it sounds like an active partition is marked > bootable and only one partition can be marked that way. Currently my > linux partition is marked bootable but I'm not sure if it needs to be > since grub is installed in the MBR. Any thoughts? I might just try to > set my plan9 partition bootable and see what happens; I'm sure i can fix > things if I can't boot later. The active flag is quite irrelevant to Linux. I'm surprised 9bootfat uses it.
