From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 21 07:30:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01120 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01092 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:30:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id HAA00395; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807211430.HAA00395@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefan Eggers Subject: Re: misc/7190: "Invalid partition table" after new install with multiple BSD slices Reply-To: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/7190; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Stefan Eggers To: nludban@salientsystems.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: misc/7190: "Invalid partition table" after new install with multiple BSD slices Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:11:46 +0200 > >Fix: > Booted with a floppy, then used fdisk -a to set partition 1 active, and > it also set partion 2 inactive. System now boots without any problems. The propper fix is to change sysinstall. It shall not mark a new slice active unless it would be the only active one. Then it will work. I'll take a look into its source and try to get a simple and under- standable fix ready. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message