Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Johnson <freebsd@spatula.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: booteasy clearing active flags Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912122327500.29468-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
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Got a strange one. System configuration looks like this: 2 IDE drives, Windows 98 on Primary IDE controller master; FreeBSD 3.3 on Secondary IDE master. Booteasy, through a course of installations is installed on both drives. Both disks have one primary partition, and both are initially set active/bootable. Disk 0 (IDE 1) is a 4 gig drive, and disk 1 (with FreeBSD installed) is a 1 gig drive. Both are set to LBA mode in the BIOS. The problem is that upon booting with booteasy, the active flag on the primary (and only) partition on the primary IDE controllor (the Windows 98 partition) is cleared, so that upon rebooting, either the BIOS or Booteasy (pretty sure it's Booteasy) complains that there is no active partition, and refuses to go any further. I was forced each time to boot with a Windows boot disk, run fdisk, set the partition active, and reboot. I should also mention that this Booteasy was installed using bootinst.exe and boot.bin from tools directory, but had the same effect when installed using the 3.3 release floppies. Also, Booteasy was unable to identify the Windows 98 partition as "DOS"; instead it said "F1 - ??". So now I wonder if this could be an issue caused by having Booteasy installed on both IDE controllers, or possibly having an active partition on both disks (although I've never had a problem with either of these before), or something really weird is going on. If anyone has any ideas about what could be going on here, or if there is some more information I can provide to clarify an issue, please let me know. I see from searching the mailing lists that this problem has surfaced several times with others in similar configurations, but it looks like the only solution has been to install a different boot manager. Nick -- "Any state that fails to recognize the dignity and worth of the individual- that state is obsolete." - Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man) My PGP public key: http://www.spatula.net/pubkey.txt Nick Johnson, version 1.5 http://www.spatula.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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