Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:43:11 -0700 (PDT) From: rgyip@students.wisc.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/14072: Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active partition (can't boot). Message-ID: <19991001064311.214CE14D0B@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 14072 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active partition (can't boot). >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 30 23:50:00 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Rick Yip >Release: 3.3 >Organization: >Environment: Intel >Description: Booting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out the active partition(s) so if you dual boot, it cannot find the master boot record to boot off of later on. >How-To-Repeat: Install 3.3 and reboot. >Fix: Have Windows boot disk and fdisk and set the correct HD to active and reboot. >Release-Note: >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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