From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 17:53:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net (deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97AC37B404 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.122]) by deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Pte0-0006rT-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 15:02:28 -0800 Received: from dialup-63.214.195.2.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.195.2] helo=sparky) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16PtdJ-0003DO-00; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 15:01:45 -0800 From: Jud To: Art Meacham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:02:04 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Subject: Re: Dual boot problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.01 build 1022 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1/13/2002 1:02:04 PM, swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: >Art Meacham writes: > >> but whenever I reboot after using freeBSD I find that >> my primary DOS partition has been made "inactive" and > >I'm not aware of this being a FAQ, but it seems like it would be. > >You need to use "boot0cfg" after reading it's man page and using the >"-o noupdate" option (at least). You may want to check out GRUB, which does a very nice job of allowing you to configure booting the way you want. It's in the ports system under sysutils. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message