Matt,
Could we not use fdisk in a non-interactive means? We already should
know which harddrive it's on (ie - /dev/hda or /dev/sda) and then run the
command 'fdisk -l $rootdev' and examine the results for a partition type '41'...
Running fdisk in this fashion is equivilent to hitting 'p' to print the
partition table... For instance my Motorola PReP machine would respond with:
marvin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 923 1917040 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 924 925 4154 41 PPC PReP Boot
/dev/sda3 926 985 124620 82 Linux swap
This could be handled sanely enuf to check for the existence of the
PPC PReP Boot partition (/dev/sda2 in example)...
Respectfully,
Jeremy T. Bouse
UnderGrid Network Services, LLC
Matt Porter was said to been seen saying:
> Yes, this is exactly how I implemented things in boot-floppies for PReP
> systems. Fortunately, we have libfdisk there with calls to detect
> partition types. Anybody know what is available from user space to
> accomplish this?
>
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