Bug 73617 - sysinstall(8): fdisk editor unmarks active partition
Summary: sysinstall(8): fdisk editor unmarks active partition
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody)
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Reported: 2004-11-06 15:10 UTC by Nehal Mistry
Modified: 2015-11-10 09:12 UTC (History)
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Description Nehal Mistry 2004-11-06 15:10:27 UTC 
my win2k/ntfs partition is marked as active, but when starting
the sysinstall fdisk utility, it doesn't show any partition as
active. if i go ahead and write to disk without manually setting
the active partition, the next boot will boot into freebsd
instead of windows.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-11-07 03:31:31 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa

sysinstall bug.
Comment 2 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-03-13 11:53:29 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec

Take.
Comment 3 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-06-17 00:55:49 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->suspended

sysinstall obtains the list of slices from kern.geom.conftxt.  Unfortunately  
that doesn't contain the flags so sysinstall has no way of knowing which slice  
is active. Suspend this PR pending a rewrite of the slice editor.
Comment 4 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-01-23 20:56:04 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: brucec->freebsd-sysinstall

Back to the pool.
Comment 5 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:07:13 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.
Comment 6 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:12:13 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.