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Subject: Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active partition (can't boot).
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>Number:         14072
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active partition (can't boot).
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 30 23:50:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 9 16:32:03 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 09 16:34:12 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Rick Yip
>Release:        3.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Intel
>Description:
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.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install 3.3 and reboot.
>Fix:
Have Windows boot disk and fdisk and set the correct HD to active and reboot.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Eric Veraart <jib@phreaker.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, rgyip@students.wisc.edu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/14072: Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active 
 partition (can't boot).
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 15:26:50 +0100

 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
 
 

From: Eric Veraart <jib@phreaker.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/14072: Rebooting in FreeBSD 3.3 wipes out known active 
 partition (can't boot).
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 08:36:27 +0100

 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
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: iedowse 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 9 16:32:03 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

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

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14072 
>Unformatted:
