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Subject: kern/14072: Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active partition (can't boot).
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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:


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