[olug] active partition

[Jay Swackhamer]

you can use fdisk under linux

#fdisk /dev/hda    <-(replace with the correct HD)

use 'p' to list the partitions

use 'a' to toggle the bootable flag

use 'm' to list available commands

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1292 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       554   4188208+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           555       568    105840   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           569       839   2048760    6  FAT16
/dev/hda4           840      1292   3424680    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           840       880    309928+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           881      1292   3114688+  83  Linux

Command (m for help):

Command (m for help): m
Command action
   a   toggle a bootable flag
   b   edit bsd disklabel
   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag
   d   delete a partition
   l   list known partition types
   m   print this menu
   n   add a new partition
   o   create a new empty DOS partition table
   p   print the partition table
   q   quit without saving changes
   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel
   t   change a partition's system id
   u   change display/entry units
   v   verify the partition table
   w   write table to disk and exit
   x   extra functionality (experts only)




> I'm running mandrake 9.1.I have 2 harddrives in my computer,one for
> linux and
> 1 for windows.Everything was fine until this morning when I  installed
> LILO
> and now the one of the 2 drives won't boot  (the windows drive of course
> :))A
> quick check of fdisk shows that my #1 partition from a previous
> linux/windows
> dual boot is an inactive partition and fdisk won't let me make the second
> partition on that drive active.Is there a partition utility in linux that
> I
> can use to make that non linux partition active?I looked at cfdisk and
> didn't
> see anything that would help there.
>
>             Gary Martin
>
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