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 B6ABD13877A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2561FE0B42; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF271E092B for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A1833FB12 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.198 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.198 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.221, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.717, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VZALixdmi878 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0178A34003C for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XQ086-0003WC-JH for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:29:10 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:29:10 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:29:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: setting boot flag on sda1 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140905161413.GJ7971@syscon7> <20140905203259.49daad58@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: 8e4dcefe-4a8c-4044-932f-9c31891d669c X-Archives-Hash: 8959c4090eaf73a65af8a04a9084c167 Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > How to set a boot flag on sda1. > > I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need > > version 2.22 or earlier > You don't need to, that's only needed by the Windows bootloader. When search for GUID partition table, I find (2) useful documents that may help with some background. [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Partition [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table#GPT_fdisk Reading both of these may help you understand your options better.... hth, James