Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:06:52 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Gemini Domino <computerdeity@geocities.com> Subject: RE: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Message-ID: <XFMail.000713210652.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <00071317583600.00323@gunnar.weygold.edu>
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On 14-Jul-00 Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold wrote: > I am having the same problem, which all started after I had to reinstall > Win98. > Win98 is on the first HD with FreeBSD on the 2nd HD. Every time I boot into > BSD > I lose the active partition setting on the first drive. > So I go into sysinstall, choose FDISK, set the partition bootable and go > about > my work. > When I reboot to go into wWindows everything is fine. > > Each time I boot BSD, the first HD is no longer set as bootable. > > I've done Fdisk /mbr and had no luck in preventing this. Ok, I'm not quite sure how you are booting into BSD, but let me see if I get this ok. You have boot0 (?) on your first hard disk, and press F1 for Windows, or F5 for disk 2 with BSD on it. When you press F5 it changes your partition to not be active? Is that ok so far? In that case, use the boot0cfg to disable the update feature on your first disk. IOW, as root, type # boot0cfg -v -o noupdate ad0 HTH. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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