Making a hard drive bootable

[Kepler]

All,

Now that I have finally managed to format my CF card - yes, I just used a Sandisk - I was wondering what the benefits are of making it "Bootable" as that is one of the options present in !HForm?

[sirbod]

All that does is essentially *OPT 4,2 to make the ROM run !Boot if it exists

[IanS]

As well as making the drive bootable, you may also need to set the machine configure options to actually get it to boot.

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*configure boot 

(or noboot if you don't want it to auto boot anymore).

Having a bootable drive is iseful if yoiu have the uniboot structure installed, so it runs everytime you turn on the machine.