On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:34:28PM -0700, stupidmail4me wrote:
> I have a machine with / on wd0.
>
> I'm creating a RAID 1 setup using softraid on wd1 and wd2.
>
> The instructions are great, except I'm having a problem with fdisk. Using
> fdisk -iy wd1, it creates one partition, great. But it's bootable, which is
> causing my machine to hang on boot. Yes, I know you'd usually switch which
> hard drive to start up in the BIOS, but the BIOS on my machine sucks. Unlike
> Linux fdisk, there's no a option to toggle the bootable flag.
>
> 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?
Can't you flag some other, empty, partition as bootable? ("flag 3")
Joachim
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