I have been having a problem with fdisk on old computers.
What I am doing is installing Debian, but dropping to the command line and
creating a GPT manually because Debian seems to want to always create a
msdos partition table.
After creating the GPT and partitioning, the install proceeds normally,
but upon reboot the old bios tells me "No bootable disk".
I can fix this by going into rescue mode and setting the pmbr_boot flag
using parted.
My question is whether this can be done in fdisk. If not, can it be added?
I did try going into expert mode and selecting "toggle the legacy BIOS
bootable flag", but does not seem to work. I did not see any change to
the boot sector when using 'd: print the raw data of the first sector from
the device'.
Advice appreciated.
-- Bruce Dubbs
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