Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:49:54 +0100 From: Mario Hoerich <lists@MHoerich.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/21406: [boot] bootinst or booteasy overwrites second drive's partition table Message-ID: <20050208004954.GA13614@Pandora.MHoerich.de>
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Hi. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/21406 | the boot manager installed by bootinst.exe will occasionally write | the partition table of the first hard drive in my system to the | second hard drive. This has happened about 10 times over the past | 2 years with various computers, and I am able to restore the partition table | with linux's fdisk. This happens when, 1) The computer is set to | | boot from an ide cdrom, which fails because no cdrom is present, 2) | I try to boot in some way that fails. The partition tables in | both drives have the four main entries full. The first drive | has 1 type 06, 1 type c, 1 type 83, and 1 type 85 with many logical | partitions in that. The second drive has one freebsd partition, | one solaris, one beos, and one type 85, linux extended with many | logical drives. This has happend with 4 different motherboards, | and several different hard drives. I don't know if any hardware | is common. This has happened both when the second drive is a | primary slave, and when it is a secondary master. That PR seems to have no relevance to FreeBSD. Could anyone with commit privileges close it, please? Thanks. Mariohelp
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