Bug 14072

Summary:	Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active partition (can't boot).
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	rgyip <rgyip>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description rgyip 1999-10-01 07:50:00 UTC

Booting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out the active partition(s) so if you dual boot, it cannot find the master boot record to boot off of later on.

Fix: 

Have Windows boot disk and fdisk and set the correct HD to active and reboot.
How-To-Repeat: Install 3.3 and reboot.

Comment 1 jib 1999-12-04 14:26:50 UTC

You can boot from floppy and run FDISK, but it's irritating to boot from
floppy everytime I've run FreeBSD 3.3 (I run it on my secondary disk,
primary disk contains Win 95 and is set inactive everytime I run
FreeBSD).
Isn't there a way that when you shutdown FreeBSD it sets the first
partition on your first HD active?

Eric

Comment 2 jib 1999-12-08 07:36:27 UTC

Fix:

I fixed it with a cheap and easy way: Ranish Partition Manager.
It's free from http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
It has a nice interface and boot menu.
An alternative way could be to put: fdisk -a <DRIVE/PARTITION> into
rc.shutdown so it puts the primary drive/partition active on shutdown.

Greetz,
Eric

Comment 3 iedowse freebsd_committer

2001-07-10 00:32:03 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed


I believe this is fixed in recent releases; boot0cfg certainly 
allows you to turn off the updating of the active partition 
anyway.