Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 04:14:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reinstalling boot blocks... Message-ID: <20000618041447.A631@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000616173934.0200a358@mail.cpl.net>; from shawn@megadeth.org on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:41:16PM -0700 References: <4.3.0.20000616173934.0200a358@mail.cpl.net>
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:41:16PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > What is the easiest/safest way to re install the boot blocks on a > 3.4-RELEASE machine? Can I just use the boot disks, and write out the > changes in fdisk? (being sure the newfs flag is N! ) ? What you want is boot0cfg. Just run on the disks you want to install the boot loader the command 'boot0cfg -B' and according to the manpage of boot0cfg the MBR will be replaced by a new boot block, without affecting the existing slice table. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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