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Topic: Does boot flag = active partition ?

Hi!
First of all , sorry for probable asking that  question again and again.
I read "walkthrough" about installing *Nix on top of XP on the same machine and it tells a fun story
about QTParted. However, I've a GParted for that task. Instruction on QTParted says, that *Nix makes it's partition active, hence WinXP loses it's bootloader. To fix it I should go to the QTparted and apply "Operations->Set Active" on WinXP partition.

But GParted hasn't  an option "Operations->Set Active". One thing it has is a "boot" flag. Is it the same as QTParted's "Operations->Set Active"?

Thanks in advance,
Andrew.

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Re: Does boot flag = active partition ?

I think that "boot" flag is same as "set active".

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