Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:38:10 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> Cc: Gemini Domino <computerdeity@geocities.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Message-ID: <200007151738.KAA14117@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <00071508435700.00308@gunnar.weygold.edu>
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On 15-Jul-00 Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold wrote: > This has worked. With updating turned off the problem has gone away. > > Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Well, after 4.1 is out the door I'll come back and try to fix this problem better by having boot0 only change the active flag if a) update is turned on, and b) you pressed F1-F4. One thing that bothers me is that if you press F1 to boot Windows, that should have set the active flag on your Windows slice before booting it. If that is not being done then that bug needs to be fixed, which would make my workaround unnecessary. > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: >> On 14-Jul-00 Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Ok, I'm not quite sure how you are booting into BSD, but let me >> see if I get this ok. You have boot0 (?) on your first hard disk, >> and press F1 for Windows, or F5 for disk 2 with BSD on it. When >> you press F5 it changes your partition to not be active? Is that >> ok so far? In that case, use the boot0cfg to disable the update >> feature on your first disk. IOW, as root, type >> >> # boot0cfg -v -o noupdate ad0 >> >> HTH. >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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/ >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > > Be careful and have a good time (mother's paradox curse) > > 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 -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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