Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:57:03 -0800 

zephod wrote:

Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason
to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it?




I agree. I never encountered anything like this. LILO can do those things, but 
you have to explicitly configure lilo to do such a thing (what does lilo.conf 
look like?). 

I will be at this site on next Wednesday, and will get lilo.conf then.




I don't think diskdrake is capable to configure LILO to do 
partition-hiding / activation while booting.



How did you configure XOSL? Did you install Linux on a primary or logical 
partition? 

XOSL only has Windows, Linux1 and Linux2 choices.

Both Linux installations are on logical partitions.

Does it occur each time after you booted Linux or just after



install? 


Immediately after quitting either Linux the BIOS complains of no active 
partition.



My first guess would be the configuration of XOSL. Maybe it could be


some idiot program which executes lilo -A ... at boot time (you realy 
installed everything?), but I doubt it.



Expert, Install, Every group selected except servers, no individual 
selection.



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