From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 15 9:38:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836F637BBC5 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from computerdeity@geocities.com) Received: from castor (pool-209-138-49-192.tmpa.grid.net [209.138.49.192]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA27295 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:38:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001f01bfee7b$1336a680$7171fea9@castor> From: "Gemini Domino" To: Subject: Boot loader problem workaround Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:38:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's been a problem reported by several people on multi-HD multiboot systems about the bootloader clearing active flags and making it impossible to reboot without using a boot disk to use FDISK to reset the active flag. This was solved by turning on the "noupdate" option with boot0cfg, but I had another idea I thought you hackers could help me with. Since I rather liked the default partition being set to the last one used (this is what caused the problem) it occured to me to use FreeBSDs fdisk to reset the active flag on ad0 (maybe in rc). What I cant find is whether or not there is a non-interactive way of doing so. I looked into using a configfile, but that nukes the partition tables. Anyone wanna play with this or have any input? Thanks GGD ********* "To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher" "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." "A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness." "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message