From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 17:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.emailqueue.net (mx0.emailqueue.net [209.75.5.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3730B37B966; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@paganlibrary.com) Received: from mx0.emailqueue.net (209.75.4.21) by mx.emailqueue.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA76011; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@paganlibrary.com) Received: from gunnar.weygold.edu (pool0365.cvx15-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.45.110]) by mx0.emailqueue.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA78525; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:58:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Organization: The Pagan Library To: John Baldwin , Gemini Domino Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:54:58 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00071317583600.00323@gunnar.weygold.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having the same problem, which all started after I had to reinstall Win98. Win98 is on the first HD with FreeBSD on the 2nd HD. Every time I boot into BSD I lose the active partition setting on the first drive. So I go into sysinstall, choose FDISK, set the partition bootable and go about my work. When I reboot to go into wWindows everything is fine. Each time I boot BSD, the first HD is no longer set as bootable. I've done Fdisk /mbr and had no luck in preventing this. On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On 12-Jul-00 Gemini Domino wrote: > > For some reason, every time I boot into FreeBSD (dual booting with > > windows98), the next time I reboot, I get "Not found any [active partition] > > on hard drive". I have to boot with a dos diskette and run fdisk to manually > > reset the active partition. Any one know WHAT the heck is doing this and how > > to fix it? > > Umm, how are you booting into FreeBSD? The only thing that touches the > MBR to set the active flag is boot0, which is the boot manager that allows > you to press F1 for one OS and F2 for the other, etc. By default, it changes > the active partition to be whatever partition you choose to boot from, although > this option can be turned off. > > > Thanks > > > > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Do I believe in the Bible? Hell man, I've SEEN one! Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold The Pagan Library http://www.paganlibrary.com --------------------------- FreeBSD 3.4----------PalmOS Spam Filter Your Mail! Go to http://www.Brightmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message