[NTLUG:Discuss] cfdisk and bootable partition flag

[ntlug@levelofdetail.com]

I'm on a Linux-only machine using SUSE 9.2. I boot from the first of two
IDE hard disks - /dev/hda.

I'm not currently having a problem, but am trying to understand the boot
process better. I've tried both fdisk and cfdisk and in neither one do I
get an indication of which is the bootable partition on the drive. Why
is this? How can I find which partition I'm booting from?

Would there ever be a reason to toggle between two partitions as the
boot partition?

Another curiosity -

When I

   cfdisk -P /dev/hdb

the header info of cfdisk indicates that I'm look at /dev/hda.

Any help is appreciated.

Ed