On Saturday, February 20, Ted Unangst wrote: > > Is this really an improvement? If I have two bootable partitions, at > least one of them will boot now, letting me fix the problem. If you > refuse to boot, now I need to dig around in my toy box for a floppy > drive or something before I can fix it. I would prefer booting into > the wrong OS over not booting any day.
If that is the case, why not take the check for 55AA out as well? It would be better to complain about malformed/corrupted MBR's, rather than silently continuing. The question that would arise for me immediately, is how did it get messed up? Disk corruption? Or something else? --Toby.
