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Old 04-24-2010, 10:13 PM   #1
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changing boot partition


Everything is installed and setup on my system, but when I setup my partitions I chose my Windows partition to be bootable. Can I just use cfdisk to toggle the bootable flag so my linux partition is bootable and rewrite the partition table?
 
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The boot flag is irrelevant for the usual Linux bootloaders.
Just leave it as-is - if you ever need to do anything with the Windoze install disk, it will look for the boot flag, and expect to find it on NTFS/FAT.
 
Old 04-24-2010, 10:25 PM   #3
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Then how do I boot my newly installed Linux? When I boot to my C drive my system boots Windows.
 
  


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