Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:28:06 -0700 From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> To: "Gemini Domino" <computerdeity@geocities.com>, "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Message-ID: <00071515295300.00312@gunnar.weygold.edu> In-Reply-To: <001001bfee93$c26586e0$520ffea9@castor> References: <200007151738.KAA14117@john.baldwin.cx> <001001bfee93$c26586e0$520ffea9@castor>
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This is what happens here. I suspect, once you boot into BSD it tries to set boot0 to a default of F5 since that was the last one chosen. Just it sets a default of F1 when that was last one chosen. For whatever reason, when it alters it topoint to F5, it removes the active flag. On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Gemini Domino wrote: > In my case, if you press F1 to boot windows, its fine. But once you press > F5, ad0 doesnt have a flag anymore. Maybe its just that certain BIOSes dont > recognize active partitions on secondary or slave drives? > > ********* > > "To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the > third case: one must be both -- a philosopher" > > "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the > individual uncomfortable, that is my task." > > "A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only > ones that modern men still read with exactness." > > "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a > stupidity." > > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> > To: "Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold" <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> > Cc: "Gemini Domino" <computerdeity@geocities.com>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 13:38 > Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! > > > > > > 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/ -- If at first you don't succeed, call it Ver. 1.0 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
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