grub vs. me

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:54 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > What is more
> > interesting is that your edited version has root on /dev/sda3. Is this
> > consistent with the partition you have marked as bootable (see fdisk)?
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> It does not need to be marked bootable. It does need to be the 
> correct partition for the root partition. For that matter, the root 
> partition does not need to be a primary partition. Depending on your 
> BIOS, you may need one partition marked as bootable, but this is not 
> requirement for Grub or booting Linux.

I realize that. I was attempting to understand why Anaconda got it
wrong, that's all.

poc