On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:44:46AM +1000, frank brierley wrote:
> David and Manuel,
> 
> Thank you both for your comments.
> 
> The new install is intended for the second MBR partition, I've dreams of 
> using xen.
> 
> The "I" flag was set in the MBR phase - partition b, and the MBR 
> partition marked as netbsd.

Does this mean you had 2 MBR partitions marked as NetBSD (type 169) ?

> [...]
> 
> What is the effect of the "a" and "d" flags?

'a' if for 'active'. The MBR code (if not using the boot menu) uses this
to know which partition to load. I don't know what 'd' is for.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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