I'd used gparted to mark both partitions active, hoping that would set me up. It didn't occur to me to make linux the only active partition.
The Windows MBR code will read down the partition table looking for the active flag. It will use the first so marked partition it finds and chain to that partition's boot sector. If two partitions have the flag set, the first record *in the table* will be used; the table is typically in the same order as the actual sequence on disk but need not be. If the partition's boot sector does not contain valid boot code, the process will fail at that point. What the user sees will depend on what, if anything, is in the sector. You can determine which boot code is in a sector by copying the sector with dd and viewing it with xxd or equiv. This can be done with the Live-CD. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org