ferent combinations of the following options:
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\item[The default.] The default partition to boot can be the first
one, the one with the active flag set, or can be configurable, depending
on the MBR. Some MBRs set the active flag in the MBR to the selected
partition, and hence default to it the next boot. This requires
rewriting the MBR, and therefore may conflict with virus protection
present in some BIOSes.
Note that there is another reason for setting the active flag to the
booted partition, and rewriting the MBR: MS-DOS gets horribly confused
if it is booted f
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