From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 08:08:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4CF16A41C for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 08:08:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.ml@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC88343D1D for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 08:08:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.ml@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 49so378018wri for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 01:08:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=UAbZNMT8tXb8BXzCoJnuGY3aa3gw4kJL+WfYYyeH17ayAh6lCUAaMxqSS0hZ9MR+lrHs4lIlIK13nz0vsS70KektodrX8XH0mRyZeKtzoPkKhORiDXCoJBsJG5XHSWT/28T5o+IWF4i0sgWFtchmLxcTt+eVNkDus0V07W0X7Z8= Received: by 10.54.19.71 with SMTP id 71mr102838wrs; Tue, 31 May 2005 01:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.20.41 with HTTP; Tue, 31 May 2005 01:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:08:46 +0900 From: FreeBSD MailingLists To: questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: installing boot0 via dd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD MailingLists List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:08:47 -0000 I have a sony Vaio U50. It's a pretty cool device but sony seems to be locking out non-Sony floppy/cdrom drive during the boot process.=20 As a result I can't use either of my usb-floppy or usb-cdrom drive, even though the bios boot order is set to try floppy, optical drive, then HDD. I want to install boot0 onto the MBR so at least i'll have the option of booting from a second harddrive. Here is what I am thinking... 1) go to a different freebsd box with boot0 already installed. 2) use dd to grab a image file of the MBR 3) boot into knoppix on the machine (i already have it installed on the HDD= ) 4) use dd to load the image file to the MBR can someone tell me if the following commands are correct for grabbing and reloading the MBR? 1) on Freebsd: dd if=3D/dev/ad0 of=3Dboot0file bs=3D1b count=3D1 2) on knoppix: dd if=3Dboot0file of=3D/dev/hda bs=3D1b count=3D1