On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Gemini Domino wrote:
> There's been a problem reported by several people on multi-HD multiboot
> systems about the bootloader clearing active flags and making it impossible
> to reboot without using a boot disk to use FDISK to reset the active flag.
> This was solved by turning on the "noupdate" option with boot0cfg, but I had
> another idea I thought you hackers could help me with. Since I rather liked
> the default partition being set to the last one used (this is what caused
> the problem) it occured to me to use FreeBSDs fdisk to reset the active flag
> on ad0 (maybe in rc). What I cant find is whether or not there is a
> non-interactive way of doing so. I looked into using a configfile, but that
> nukes the partition tables. Anyone wanna play with this or have any input?
It would be nice if a command like
fdisk -a -1 ad0
would just set it instead of asking.
Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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