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From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
To: Ryan Merrick <sandshrimp@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: rebuilding the MBR
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> >is it possible to rebuild the MBR?  i'm booting from a promise controller.
> > initially i was booting from the primary controller but now i'm booting
> >from the second ide contoller now.

Don't really know if this is completely relevant, but:

# man boot0cfg(8)

Steve

> >
> >i'm assuming there is a mismatch.  i guess need to boot off of the generic
> >kernel and reconfigure.  i have a great deal of information on this drive,
> >so i would really not like to do a reinstallation.
> >
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> Yes,
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> Take a look at the fdisk (8) man page.
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> A generic kernel will idenify the new system's different hardware.
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> -Ryan
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