On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 03:17:07PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:14:26 +0200
Thomas Pfaff tpf...@tp76.info wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
stupidmail4me stupidmail...@yahoo.com wrote:
Anyone know how to edit the default MBR record so fdisk -iy creates
one partition with no bootable flag, or how to unset the bootable flag?
I think the following should do it:
fdisk: 1 flag partition 0
I suppose the man page should mention that this operation can take on
a second operand.
diff if this should be mentioned. It was in fact mentioned in the man
page but the text was commented out. Not sure why.
Index: fdisk.8
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RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8,v
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -p -r1.69 fdisk.8
--- fdisk.8 27 Mar 2010 13:56:49 - 1.69
+++ fdisk.8 12 May 2010 13:15:04 -
@@ -303,14 +303,14 @@ may be appended to indicate bytes, kilob
The special size value
.Sq *
will cause the partition to be sized to use the remainder of the disk.
-.It Cm flag Ar #
+.It Cm flag Ar # Op Ar value
Make the given MBR partition table entry bootable.
Only one entry can be marked bootable.
.\ If you wish to boot from an extended
.\ MBR partition, you will need to mark the MBR partition table entry for
the
.\ extended MBR partition as bootable.
-.\ If an optional value is given, the MBR partition is marked with the given
-.\ value, and other MBR partitions are not touched.
+If an optional value is given, the MBR partition is marked with the given
+value, and other MBR partitions are not touched.
.It Cm update
Update the machine MBR bootcode and 0xAA55 signature in the memory copy
of the currently selected boot block.
a slightly different version of this diff now committed.
jmc
