From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 14:06:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23694 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23613 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29331; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:05:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Senee Patimasup cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199809280734.OAA06996@cbu.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Senee Patimasup wrote: > Hello. > My name is Senee Patimasup, living in Thailand. I'm very new to FreeBSD > (i've just installed it for the first time yesterday). The installation was > easy and smooth (thanks for this). Anyway, i got a problem which i couldn't > solve it myself, so i will be very appreciated if you kindly help me. > > I have 3 harddrives in my computer with 'System Commander' program to > switch between OSes. I installed FreeBSD into the primiry slave harddrive. > The installation was successful and i was successfully logged into FreeBSD > environment. The problem is that 'everytime i shutdown FreeBSD and restart, > my primary master partition will set into INACTIVE one and i cannot boot > the machine. To make the partition active again, I have to set it with > fdisk everytime which is quite tedious. This is a SysCommander-ism. I believe there is an option in the ALT-F10 config menu to disable this behavior. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message