From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 11:36:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA14380 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:36:47 -0700 Received: from eta.cs.fsu.edu (eta.cs.fsu.edu [128.186.121.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14374 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:36:45 -0700 Received: by eta.cs.fsu.edu (8.6.9/56) id OAA23830; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:35:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199504181835.OAA23830@eta.cs.fsu.edu> Subject: Re: Remove the BSD MBR To: nc@ain.charm.net (Network Coordinator) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:35:46 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bynum@NU.CS.FSU.EDU, bmk@dtr.com, u509264@csi.UOttawa.CA, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Network Coordinator" at Apr 18, 95 01:52:53 pm From: bynum@NU.CS.FSU.EDU (Mark J. Bynum) Reply-to: bynum@NU.CS.FSU.EDU X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 652 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > fdisk 2 /mbr > > > > It just writes the MBR to the first disk which is not what I want it to do. > > > > To my knowledge, the only MBR that actually matters is the one that is on > logical drive 0. Period. > Well on my system I have to go through a two-stage boot with the boot manager: 1) boot to disk two and 2) to boot FreeBSD on disk two. I remember having a one-stage boot once before where I just selected FreeBSD from the first boot manager and it would start FreeBSD from the second drive. I tried doing a fdisk -i on the second disk and couldn't get it to work, i.e. the boot manager on the second drive was still there. Mark Bynum