Active partition
The term active partition is relevant only for MBR partitions and booting by BIOS.
The active partition is the partition on the first hard
disk which is automatically
booted when no boot manager is installed. The partition marked as active is set in
the partition table of the MBR. Please note that
there is only one active partition
allowed on each hard disk. If a boot manager is installed it is irrelevant which
partition is marked as active, since the partitions are selected and booted from the
boot manager.
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