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Thaidog

12-13-2006 04:41 PM

How do you mark a partition active?

I got the following error when installing lilo:

Warning partition /dev/hda2 not marked active.

How do I mark a partition as active?

homey

12-13-2006 05:10 PM

From man sfdisk

Code:

      -N number

              Change only the single partition indicated. For example:

                  % sfdisk /dev/hdb -N5

                  ,,,*

                  %

              will  make  the  fifth  partition  on  /dev/hdb  bootable

              (‘active’) and change nothing else.  (Probably  this  fifth

              partition  is called /dev/hdb5, but you are free to call it

              something else, like ‘/my_equipment/disks/2/5’ or so).

So, in your case, it would look like this...

Code:

sfdisk /dev/hda -N2

,,,*

Thaidog

12-15-2006 05:44 PM

Is there any way to do it with regular fdisk?

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