From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92C613877A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CCE2E0992; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BDF4E09D4 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B3820B17 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:38:08 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=sZs4vs7IHE6h3GqtUR3/b0 uq/KY=; b=Mpp0syx4Bn7fUeVpt2Fr93rwgaJ7cL03Jdg6z35xcRdJ89PCfrwTNn PLFk8939QiPD2jNtVO1rt+63RQ6xB/bU1fPYvfnOjGMF36jwfngZKjtl9wA+jLmH r39Q/l5L+ybw4YR3h/gi7pZp9oDhNxq2uSTtqQv/3nZfg4NvAPg8g= X-Sasl-enc: VnWIdmj2pR5HqGOgLG846JDrjEV1n0OT5hAt8KNj0qZG 1409949488 Received: from [35.2.94.177] (unknown [35.2.94.177]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5AC0F6800D2 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <540A1F2F.1050202@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:38:07 -0400 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting boot flag on sda1 References: <20140905161413.GJ7971@syscon7> <20140905171252.GO8207@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <20140905173704.GK7971@syscon7> <20140905180847.GR8207@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <20140905201143.GO7971@syscon7> In-Reply-To: <20140905201143.GO7971@syscon7> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e46c6333-177a-4e5f-b6a1-b80963f2f791 X-Archives-Hash: 219c7fd7966dfbded97f20935ad64b89 On 09/05/2014 04:11 PM, Joseph wrote: > > With a GPT partition and old BIOS 2008 system, I need to set the > bootable flag on the protective MSDOS partition. Thats all the BIOS > can see. > > I need to use an older fdisk and ignore the dire warning about a GPT > partition table being detected. > > But where to find older fdisk and in stall it from chroot environment. > IIRC, fdisk will warn about GPT, but when you use 'o' to generate a new partition table, it generates an MBR. If you're going to repartition and reinstall, fdisk will create an MBR partition table. No matter how old or recent it is, by default it should create MBR. Just did it a week ago on my laptop, so unless the behavior has changed in a week, you should be good with fdisk. Alec