Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> To: Gemini Domino <computerdeity@geocities.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007121256270.17446-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <002301bfec39$67586300$0200a8c0@castor>
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(Please wrap characters at 72 ) > 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? Try a dos boot disk run fdisk /mbr. You'll have to reinstall FreeBSD's boot loader afterwards though. You MBR is probally corrupted. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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