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 > =================================================================== > 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 -0000 1.69 > +++ fdisk.8 12 May 2010 13:15:04 -0000 > @@ -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
