[Klug-general] Setting Boot Flag

[Andrew Miller (Spode)]

Ah, you were so close.

fdisk /dev/hda << EOF
a
1
w
EOF

Works nicely :)

Spode

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:52 +0000, Andrew Miller (Spode) wrote:
>   
>> I'm using BusyBox, so scripting for sh compatibility.
>>
>> Thanks for steering me in the right direction here. Is there a way of 
>> putting the script into a variable and inputting that instead of having 
>> to use an interim file? As far as I can see fdisk < input.script will 
>> only work with a real file..
>>     
>
> urgh, something like this perhaps...
>
> cat > /tmp/setboot.fdisk << EOF
> a
> 1
> EOF
>
> fdisk /dev/sdx < /tmp/setboot.fdisk
> rm -f /tmp/setboot.fdisk
>
> K,
>
>
>   
>> Spode
>>
>> Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>     
>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
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