Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Sat Nov 21 05:16:41 UTC 2009


dexter wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com>:
>   
>> Is there another way to make partitions bootable other than using
>> Windows installation CD/DVD/floppies?
>>     
> fdisk part of util-linux-ng.
> # fdisk /dev/sdxx
> 'm' for help
> 'a' to toggle boot flag
> 'w' write table to disk and exit
>
> ...dex
>   
Um, perhaps I was not too clear...

What I meant is, to put the MBR on the 12 or 13th
partition, not simply to set the partition as "active",
and I can do that with gparted (which is called the
"boot" flag).

Thanks,
Dan




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