From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 02:55:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26261 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 02:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.techno-link.com (ns.techno-link.com [212.36.0.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA26245 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 02:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plamendp@ns.techno-link.com) Received: from techno-link.com (pool6-var.techno-link.com [212.36.1.197]) by mail.techno-link.com (8.8.8/8.8.602) with ESMTP id MAA14511 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:54:09 +0300 Posted-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:54:09 +0300 Message-ID: <35DBEE31.3DA11EC7@techno-link.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:36:50 +0300 From: Plamen Petkov Reply-To: plamendp@techno-link.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Active partition problem - bootin in FreeBSD set it to "non-bootable" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Plamen Petkov wrote: > > > I'll try to be short: > > > > Every time I reboot (BootEasy, FSBD on prim. slave disk; > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Problem here -- make sure you install BootEasy on the primary master disk. > It doesn't do any good to put it on the slave. DOS or something may be > noticing the improper active bit on the second disk and rearranging it. Well, perhaps you are right. But it was about Master Disk active partition - the one wich flag was cleared to 0, not the slave. Well, Let me clear what I did (some history needed): After encountering the "active partition flag cleared" problem.... i.e. loop: (re)boot booteasy menu press F5->boot FBSD->Boot: prompt -> successfull FreeBSD boot reboot (# reboot) active partition cleared "somehow" BIOS msg "Not Found Any Active Partition - insert system disk" Ctl-Alt-Del -> boot clean DOS from floppy fdisk "set Master Disk Primary DOS partition 'active'" goto loop ... I reboot in clean DOS from floppy and used a "fdisk /mbr". Now my computer 'forgot' (no booteasy) abt the second (slave) disk and happily boot the W95. No problema. Active partition problem disappeared. Realy. Then....I bootinst the boot.bin from 2.2.2-R CDROM on the Prim. Master && Slave!!! disks (the original situation was with booteasy installed on the MASTER ONLY) At this moment: (re)boot booteasy menu Press F5 - FreeBSD -> go to booteasy menu from Slave Disk label: Press F1- FreeBSD - excpecting "Boot:" promt NO Boot: prompt, instead booteasy menu just redisplayed if Press F5 - DOS -> back to Master Disk booteasy menu booteasy menu from Master Disk if press F1 -DOS -> successfull W95 boot if Press F5-FreeBSD -> goto BTW, once you reched the "label:" above (i.e. just TRY to boot freebsd), the "active partition cleared" problem is there again at the next reboot. :-( Funny... Huh... I hope this make sense to you... too long msg... Waiting for questions :-) -- == REMOVE NOSPAM. == Plamen D. Petkov E-mail: plamendp@NOSPAM.techno-link.com ICQ#: 2214327 http://www.bgstore.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message