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frostschutz · 05-12-2016, 06:04 AM

I'm not sure which active/boot flag you talk about.

The Kobo exports the filesystem directly as a block device, without an additional partition table. In Linux that means you mount /dev/sdx, not /dev/sdx1 (sdx being the entire block device, sdx1 would be a partition that does not exist in the case of Kobo).

So is there a boot flag or whatever as a property of the filesystem itself?

If we could understand this issue better maybe it would be possible to mod the firmware / tell Kobo about it so in future firmwares this issue never comes up in the first place.

05-12-2016, 06:04 AM	#12
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	I'm not sure which active/boot flag you talk about. The Kobo exports the filesystem directly as a block device, without an additional partition table. In Linux that means you mount /dev/sdx, not /dev/sdx1 (sdx being the entire block device, sdx1 would be a partition that does not exist in the case of Kobo). So is there a boot flag or whatever as a property of the filesystem itself? If we could understand this issue better maybe it would be possible to mod the firmware / tell Kobo about it so in future firmwares this issue never comes up in the first place.