[Klug-general] Setting Boot Flag

[Karl Lattimer]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:13 +0000, Andrew Miller (Spode) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Bit stuck here, and hoping someone has the information stuck in their 
> heads somewhere. Been Googling for a good hour.
> 
> In a Linux script I'm writing, I need it to be able to set the boot flag 
> on a partition. Which means no interactivity. I know how I could do this 
> with parted, but the minimal distro I'm using doesn't have it standard. 
> I have fdisk and mkfs.ext3.
> 
> Any ideas?

create an fdisk script

===== script file =====
#!/bin/fdisk /dev/disk
a
1
=======================

Or something to that effect.

K,