Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:39:15 -0500 From: K Wieland <kwieland@wustl.edu> To: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual boot solution Message-ID: <88c5e1e89a45341e68541f87eb19f553@wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <7iek7i844v.k7i@mail.opusnet.com> References: <2cdb8d1853d56424121c721237176f90@wustl.edu> <m6mzm68he6.zm6@mail.opusnet.com> <2dd9015a8a05946fa2565a773939ad71@wustl.edu> <7iek7i844v.k7i@mail.opusnet.com>
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> I haven't done enough installations recently to answer. Are you > saying that if you leave the "fdisk" screen with no primary partition > marked active or with the MSFT one marked active, then it switches > it to the soon-to-be-FreeBSD one? > > One of the installer's help files says: > > If no slice is marked Active, you will need to either install a > Boot Manager (the option for which will be presented later in the > installation) or set one Active before leaving this screen. This was my experience. I didn't set either of them active (even though the windows partition was active prior to running fdisk) and it defaulted to setting the BSD partition active. > >> Why couldn't sysinstall set the active bit to the other partition? > > It could, but that wouldn't always be a good choice, would it? IMO, > if any are already set active, it should leave them alone and not set > any others; else, set active the primary partition of the soon-to-be > FreeBSD root file system. After I realized that something wasn't right, I tried to run sysinstall to set the windows partion as the active partition (which worked when I was installing 5.4). In the fdisk screen in sysinstall, when I tried to write the changes (make the windows partition active) it would give me an error. Is this something you can only do on installs, not after the fact? I just submitted a PR, I'll CC you when it is processed. Thanks for your help. Kristopher
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