From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 21: 9:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AEB37BD4F for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA96571; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA08013; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001601bfed2f$acb2ad60$0200a8c0@castor> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Gemini Domino Subject: Re: Boot loader CLEARING active parition flags??!?! Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Jul-00 Gemini Domino wrote: > Maybe if I turned that option off then... Because every time it happens, I > have to go in and set the partition to active again (if I dont, the system > hangs before even GETTING to the boot manager.) When I reset it then boot > into windows, all is good. Otherwise it happens. How can I turn this option > off? You can use boot0cfg to turn the update feature off. However, it should not hang before loading the boot manager. I will look at boot0 tonight to try and not turn off the active flag if F5 is pressed. -- John Baldwin -- 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