Maybe it's not Linux clobbering the active partition but something occuring at boot.
Is it possible that the drive in question has some software installed to make it
"seeable" by your bios? I know some of the WD drives come with software to make it
compatable with older BIOS chips. What boot manager are you using?
Joeb
-------Original Message-------
From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 11/27/02 09:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
> Reminder. No response to the below serious situation:
Ron Stodden wrote:
> I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines.
>
> Two are all OK.
>
> On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but
> always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL)
> is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which requires an MSDOS
> FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it.
>
> This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk, and runs
> Windows 98 faultlessly.
>
> I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in
> different partitions on this machine and both have this problem.
>
> Not very encouraging for my customer, is it? Frankly, very embarrasing.
>
> Anybody got any ideas what to do?
>
> Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the
> active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? Beats me!
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