[Klug-general] Setting Boot Flag

[Karl Lattimer]

One last thing, you should really be careful of the a command in fdisk,
its a "toggle" function, which would mean you should check before you
set.

K,


On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:56 +0000, Andrew Miller (Spode) wrote:
> Yeah, I was thinking that. But it's still using an interim file. It's a 
> little messy really. But it'll have to do for the moment.
> 
> Cheers Karl.
> 
> 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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