From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 06:44:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D91237B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 06:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592A343F75 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 06:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4RDiqOg025781; Tue, 27 May 2003 09:44:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4RDiq0v025780; Tue, 27 May 2003 09:44:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200305271344.h4RDiq0v025780@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: yussef@claygirl.org (yussef) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:44:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "yussef" at May 26, 2003 02:52:21 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting into windows changes active partition on dualboot system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 13:44:59 -0000 > > I have a dualboot system with freebsd 4.8 installed on the primary > slice, and win2k installed on the secondary slice. The OS' were > installed in this order. Ive installed many fbsd/win2k dualboot systems > before [usually with windows as the primary slice, and bsd and the > secondary], always using the fbsd boot manager, and never having any > problems going between os's. > However, on this system, as long as i boot > into bsd all is fine. But when i boot into windows, the windows slice > becomes the active slice, thus when i reboot, i cant access either > slice. i have to boot off a fbsd cd, then rewrite the bootmanager > [resetting the bsd slice to be the bootable slice]. The other option i > have is to manually set the bsd partition as active, while still in bsd, > then rebooting works fine. I've never seen this problem before, and tho > i accept it as a sign from the unix gods as which os i should use ;) i > would still like eliminate this issue. > thank you I think you probably need to go back and install the FreeBSD MBR over the W2K one which got written over the FreeBSD one when you did the W2K install (MSs is like that - doesn't give you a choice). I think you can use boot0cfg to do it, but I've never used that utility (always installed FreeBSD second). ////jerry > > yussef >