Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:54:58 -0700 From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gemini Domino <computerdeity@geocities.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Message-ID: <00071317583600.00323@gunnar.weygold.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000713173119.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.000713173119.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <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/ > ---------------------------------------- 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?00071317583600.00323>