From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 12:57:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B988E37BDA6 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16288; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:57:37 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id MAA18552; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:57:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Gemini Domino Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! In-Reply-To: <002301bfec39$67586300$0200a8c0@castor> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (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