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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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On 30.03.2010 12:05, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> so it seems that someone is preventing changes to the partition table!
> btw, this problem was not present in older boot0 (1.0) where the active
> partition flag is ignored.

You can change active partition via gpart(8).

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov