From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 8:27:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B00F37B42C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA24198; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:27:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:27:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Fred Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot sector restore Message-ID: <20000921102716.A3040@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000701c023df$abb63c60$6d1248ce@199.120.116.1.pionet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <000701c023df$abb63c60$6d1248ce@199.120.116.1.pionet.net>; from "Fred Wilson" on Thu Sep 21 10:21:46 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 21), Fred Wilson said: > I am getting an error, no boot sector on hard drive. Press esc.to > retry boot. It will then boot. I think I need to restore the boot > sector, if that is possible. "fdisk -B" will reinstall the standard FreeBSD bootmenu MBR. If you want a minimal DOS-like MBR, use "fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message