Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:40:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REVISED: Active partition problems with FreeBSD 4.0/NT dual-boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006101333510.43612-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> In-Reply-To: <20000610170801.F233@parish>
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > So when you re-installed NT it wrote a new PT to the MBR, which is > actually boot0? Yep. The only thing I'm not still sure of is how boot0 found its way onto the MBR of da0 in the first place. I never explicitly installed it; all I did was run boot0 (as C:\BOOTSECT.BSD) out of the NTLDR menu once, and it seems that it wrote itself into the MBR then. > I think that's why we've both seen the same "no active partition" > problem. I too have an Award BIOS (4.51PGM) on a Gigabyte m/b > (GA-586TX3). The term "brain-dead BIOS" in your original post seems to > be spot-on :) Ayup, sounds about right. > The only thing I can suggest now, other than getting a new m/b, is to > put / on da0 and /usr, /var, and swap on da1. This is the way > mine is setup and it works fine. That's a good suggestion. I'll most likely end up installing a third-party boot loader, however. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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