Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 08:41:22 -0300 From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/66248: FreeBSD bootloader is confused by booting from USB flash, trashes main drives boot block Message-ID: <E1BKyIc-0003Nm-Rm@convex.cs.unb.ca> Resent-Message-ID: <200405041150.i44BoP7s054567@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 66248 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: FreeBSD bootloader is confused by booting from USB flash, trashes main drives boot block >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue May 04 04:50:24 PDT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: David Bremner >Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 i386 >Organization: University of New Brunswick >Environment: System: FreeBSD convex.cs.unb.ca 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #12: Fri Mar 19 11:08:54 AST 2004 bremner@convex.cs.unb.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CONVEX2 i386 >Description: I was experimenting with booting FreeBSD from a USB flash card with 1 fat partition, with booteasy (written from /stand/sysinstall). It seemed to be in an infinite loop of (hard) rebooting, with self-test and all. Booting from the harddrive now presents F1 DOS. Which does not boot the windows XP partition Conjecture: At some point I suceeded enough for the bootloader to want to make a note of what it booted last, but it wrote back the wrong boot block. >How-To-Repeat: see above. >Fix: Perhaps just a warning somewhere (fdisk?). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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