Bug 36917

Summary: DOS active partition flag lost in libdisk and sysinstall
Product: Base System Reporter: davidx <davidx>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.0-CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description davidx 2002-04-09 08:00:04 UTC 
When libdisk read DOS partition information from MBR, active partition
flag is lost. when sysinstall uses libdisk to read MBR partition information, it can not display active partition flag, if user is 
installing FreeBSD in multiple boot system, for example installing 
FreeBSD on a machine which already have Windows/NT installed, and if 
he don't install FreeBSD boot0 into MBR and keep using Windows/NT boot loader, sysinstall will write partition table without DOS active 
partition flag set, when Windows/NT boot loader runs, it will die
at "Invalid Partition". the problem occurs when newbie wants to 
install FreeBSD on there Windows/NT machine and forget to set active 
partition flag.
Comment 1 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-04-09 10:58:08 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed



Duplicate of misc/36916