Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:39:43 -0800 (PST) From: jeffsh@erols.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: i386/8910: Booteasy destroys MBR and partition table on wd0 if installed elsewhere. Message-ID: <199812010139.RAA23095@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 8910 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Booteasy destroys MBR and partition table on wd0 if installed elsewhere. >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 30 17:50:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jeffrey Sheinberg >Organization: Jeff at home >Release: 2.2.6 >Environment: Sorry, I am not running this release of FreeBSD right now. >Description: Installed Booteasy boot manager as part of the installation procedure to the sd1s3 partition boot block. Upon booting sd1s3 using lilo or grub, the MBR on wd0 gets over-written, by the Booteasy bootstrap code, and the partition table from the MBR on wd0 gets over-written by sd1's partition table. >How-To-Repeat: See description. Insure that you have a method to re-boot your computer from other than wd0, and that you can re-create the partition tables on wd0. >Fix: Booteasy should read the partition boot block, update its local data, i.e., a record of which partition was last selected to be booted, and then re-write the partition boot block. Also, Booteasy should read the partition boot block that its was actually booted from, not assume it was booted from the MBR on wd0. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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