Strange booting problem

[jd1008]

On 06/30/2015 05:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 17:11 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>>>> So, it begs the question:
>>> (that's not what "begs the question" means)
>> For my case it does cause me to ask : The conundrum of my situation
>> does indeed lead me to ask that question.
>> If you think it does not mean that - then please enlighten everyone
>> as to what it means :) :)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
>
> poc
:)
My use of it was aimed against BIOS and not against the respondent :)
If BIOS will not skip over unbootable drives, and it supposedly is written
to skip over non-bootable drives - yet it does not in the situation I 
present,
then that exposes the fallacy of bios skipping over non bootable drives.

Then it is made apparent by the respondents that I cannot create 
non-bootable
partitions in a drive using fdisk or even parted - and have bios skip over
such drives within a boot sequence.
So in effect the partitioning scheme may be at fault to encode a boot
signature where no boot code is present, nor any partition marked as 
bootable.
LVM was mentioned as a possible way to avoid this.
But the other OS cannot use LVM.
I wonder if BIOS manufacturer's are reading this list and taking note :) :)