On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:39, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > Make sure you set it back to 0 after you're done. > > Thanx, I'll try, but why fdisk/sysinstall don't do that automatically for > me as it was before for many years? It's not fdisk or sysinstalls job to second guess you. Altering the MBR while you have a partition mounted is potentially quite dangerous. The reason it was possible in the past was because there was no protection against this kind of thing. > F.e. I can't even change active boot partition. What is foot-shooting > prevention in that case? I see nothing but stupidity. Use boot0cfg and the FreeBSD bootloader instead? It disallows writing the MBR full stop - it does not try and work out what is changing. Arguably it should be more intelligent, but.. patches accepted ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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