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robotoid

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[SOLVED] Boot flag on root or boot partition in bios?

Hello

When partitioning the disk during installation on a bios machine, the "bootable" flag goes to the partition that will hold / . If the system is encrypted, then /boot is on a separate partition. So should the boot flag be set on this partition instead? (concerning bios/mbr only, using grub)

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Boot flag on root or boot partition in bios?

the "bootable" flag goes to the partition that will hold /

On an MBR disk the bootflag should always be set to the partition where a bootloader is present.
For linux systems the bootloader is present in /boot , so set the bootflag to the partition where /boot resides .

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robotoid

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Re: [SOLVED] Boot flag on root or boot partition in bios?

Thanks

I just stumbled upon the answer in the Parted article. Haven't seen it stated explicitly elsewhere.