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The reason the active/primary myth keeps going on is that while it doesn't have to be MARKED "active", the TYPE of partition does have to be "primary" and people get those two mixed up. If you make a partition it's almost always going to be a primary partiton.I don't have my DM partition set as active/primary and it works fine. I am wondering why this myth keeps getting perpetuated here. The active flag is not used by DM at all, and has absolutely no use on anything other than PCs.
What might be important is having the DM partition as the first partition in the table. The FAT32 library is supposed to check for multiple partitions, but it seems it gets hung up if the first partition isn't FAT32.
(- You can have up to 4 primary partitions on your hard drive OR one extended partition with up to 3 primary partitions and then put even more virtual partitions inside the extended partition. "primary" is a TYPE of partition and probably ALL of your partitions will end up being primary unless you tell it otherwise.
- "active" is just which one is marked for DOS/Windows to boot off of and has nothing to do with DM(L) at all.)