[NTLUG:Discuss] cfdisk and bootable partition flag

[Terry]

df
will tell you where /boot is, (if you don't see /boot, it'll just be / )
and that's the partition that contains the kernel you are booting.

On 1/11/06, ntlug at levelofdetail.com <ntlug at levelofdetail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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