Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Rene Herman
On 18-01-08 10:52, Onkar wrote: i have two disks sda(160GB) and sdb (80GB) I want my root fs on sdb ?? What is the significance of Boot flag ??? Nothing really, for non MS operating systems at least. The BIOS loads the first sector (MBR, Master Boot Record) from disk and executes the code f

Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread arshad hussain
> What is the significance of Boot flag ??? BIOS looks for boot flag to determin which partiton to find bootloader. That is if you have installed grub in two differnt partitions say /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda7, boot partition will point either to /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda7. Its for user to select using

Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. On Jan 18, 2008 5:05 PM, Onkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently installing Debian on my other system with RAIDs, LVMs etc ... > but before LVMs and RAIDs I saw K but not before reiserfs,ext3,ext2,jfs > partitions . Sorry, I really don't what "K" is in this context. regards, Mul

Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... On Jan 18, 2008 4:52 PM, Onkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have two disks sda(160GB) and sdb (80GB) I want my root fs on sdb ?? > What is the significance of Boot flag ??? AFAIK, it doesn't matter for Linux root filesystem. maybe it matters for Windows or other OSes. > and the there a

Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Onkar
i have two disks sda(160GB) and sdb (80GB) I want my root fs on sdb ?? What is the significance of Boot flag ??? and the there are K for RAID and LVM partitions what are those ? Thanks & regards, Onkar