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Subject: Re: Patch to tech mkimg about the TMPDIR variable
From: Dan McGregor <danismostlikely@gmail.com>
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On 22 May 2014 14:27, Marcel Moolenaar <marcelm@juniper.net> wrote:
> On 5/22/14, 1:18 PM, "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcelm@juniper.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>The next itch I want to scratch is a way to set the active partition
>>>on an MBR image.
>>
>>I thought I made the first partition active by default.
>>I guess not=E2=80=A6
>
> Yes, I did!
>
> The gotcha is that mkimg only does that if you give it
> a boot code file. Try that...

That makes sense. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

Dan