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Old 10th March 2012
denta denta is offline
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They all suck imo. Personally I prefer to just flag the active partition in fdisk. For example on my netbook if I need to boot into windoze, it looks something like:

Code:
$ sudo fdisk -e sd0                                                                                  
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> p
Disk: sd0       geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: 12      0  32  33 -   1436  21  57 [        2048:    23068672 ] Compaq Diag.
 1: 07   1436  21  58 -   6535 254  63 [    23070720:    81930120 ] NTFS        
*2: A6   6536   0   1 -  19456 254  63 [   105000840:   207575865 ] OpenBSD     
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
fdisk: 1> flag 1
Partition 1 marked active.
fdisk:*1> p
Disk: sd0       geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: 12      0  32  33 -   1436  21  57 [        2048:    23068672 ] Compaq Diag.
*1: 07   1436  21  58 -   6535 254  63 [    23070720:    81930120 ] NTFS        
 2: A6   6536   0   1 -  19456 254  63 [   105000840:   207575865 ] OpenBSD     
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
fdisk:*1> quit
Writing MBR at offset 0.
$

Last edited by denta; 10th March 2012 at 10:27 AM.
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