From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 8:28:22 2002 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 68CA037B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:28:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [198.49.1.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A02943EC2 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sleek@enabled.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBJGM0al079359; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sleek@enabled.com) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:22:00 -0800 (PST) From: Noah Garrett Wallach To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Failure In-Reply-To: <200212180026.gBI0Qfg23053@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <20021219082002.I79285-100000@typhoon.enabled.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I dont know what this option means - does this matter? > > > > -B Install the `boot0' boot manager. This option causes MBR > > code to > > be replaced, without affecting the embedded slice table. > > Sounds like just what you said you wanted. Hi Jerry, What does "without affecting the embedded slice table" mean? What si the embedded slice table? And should I make sure that I dont affect it - or should I affect it? also is there anyway to see that, after replacing the MBR on the new drive with boot0cfg, that it is properly bootable? - noah > > By the way, I notice that you have quit CC-ing the questions list. > You should keep that in so it gets in archives and so I don't become > the sole counselor - which you don't want, for sure! > > ////jerry > > > > > - Noah > > > > > > > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > > > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > > > cylinders=148945 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > > > > > > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > > > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > > > cylinders=148945 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > > > > > > > Media sector size is 512 > > > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > > > The data for partition 1 is: > > > > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > > > start 63, size 150136497 (73308 Meg), flag 80 (active) > > > > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > > > > end: cyl 464/ head 15/ sector 63 > > > > The data for partition 2 is: > > > > > > > > The data for partition 3 is: > > > > > > > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message