Bug 51090 - grub disables itself after booting dos (default configuration)
Summary: grub disables itself after booting dos (default configuration)
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: grub
Version: roswell
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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Reported: 2001-08-07 08:39 UTC by Michael Young
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-07 08:39:42 UTC
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Description Michael Young 2001-08-07 08:39:35 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I have a windows partition on hda1 and roswell on hda3, where the grub boot
sector is also installed. Grub works fine until I boot windows from the
menu. Unfortunately the "makeactive" command in the configuration generated
during install makes hda1 active rather than hda3, so the next time the
machine is booted windows boots directly instead of running grub.
Commenting out makeactive seems to fix the problem without stopping windows
(95) from booting.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot dos
2.reboot
3.dos boots without a choice
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-08-07 15:06:42 UTC 
makeactive removed from config files for dual boot configs in CVS
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