Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:05:42 -0400 From: "Gemini Domino" <computerdeity@geocities.com> To: "Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold" <gunnar@paganlibrary.com>, "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Message-ID: <001601bfed2f$acb2ad60$0200a8c0@castor> References: <XFMail.000713173119.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <00071317583600.00323@gunnar.weygold.edu>
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Maybe if I turned that option off then... Because every time it happens, I have to go in and set the partition to active again (if I dont, the system hangs before even GETTING to the boot manager.) When I reset it then boot into windows, all is good. Otherwise it happens. How can I turn this option off? ********* "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: "Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold" <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Gemini Domino" <computerdeity@geocities.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 20:54 Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! > 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
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