From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: RAID1, hot-swap and boot integrity
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:48:20 -0800
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To: Mike Accetta <maccetta@laurelnetworks.com>
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Mike Accetta wrote:
> I gathered the impression somewhere, perhaps incorrectly, that the active
> flag was a function of the boot block, not the BIOS.  We use Grub in the 
> MBR and don't even have an active flag set in the partition table.  The system
> still boots.

The active flag is indeed an MBR issue.

	-hpa