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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: setting boot flag on sda1
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:29:28
Message-Id: loom.20140905T222611-380@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] setting boot flag on sda1 by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
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4 > > How to set a boot flag on sda1.
5 > > I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need
6 > > version 2.22 or earlier
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8 > You don't need to, that's only needed by the Windows bootloader.
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11 When search for GUID partition table, I find (2) useful documents that
12 may help with some background.
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14 [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Partition
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16 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table#GPT_fdisk
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18 Reading both of these may help you understand your options better....
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21 hth,
22 James