Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

hilliard@metrolink.net writes:

>      Where can one find information about /sbin/activate?  I have it
> on my system (Debian 1.2.18), but no man pages, How-To, or other
> documentation.  It does not give any meaningful response to activate -h
> or activate --help.  What does this program do?

According to the very short help:

        ~$ /sbin/activate 
        usage: /sbin/activate device [ partition ]
          i.e. /sbin/activate /dev/hda 2

it seems to set the bootable flag in the partition table, the example
above would make /dev/hda2 the bootable partition on your first IDE
hard disc.

        Torsten

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