From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 8:52: 6 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 0D58B37C519; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:52:02 -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 IAA04612; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@paganlibrary.com) Received: from gunnar.weygold.edu (pool0065.cvx4-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.178.146.65]) by mx0.emailqueue.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA41391; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:51:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Organization: The Pagan Library To: John Baldwin Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:42:07 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Gemini Domino References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00071508435700.00308@gunnar.weygold.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This has worked. With updating turned off the problem has gone away. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! 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 -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message