From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 17: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7775637B400 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B66B28D62; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:06:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:06:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Patrick O'Reilly Cc: Mike Meyer , mpd , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me, partially... In-Reply-To: <200204071557.1177@.perimeter.co.za> Message-ID: <20020411200205.B76458-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.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 On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Oops - time to eat humble pie! Mike is right. I think I tried 'boot0cfg -B ad0', which installed the FreeBSD boot manager with the boot menu, etc. When reading the man page for 'fdisk' it all looked so similar that I _assumed_ their behaviour was similar! MY BAD! Can a command similar to 'boot0cfg -B ad0' be issued effectively while logged in regularly to the box, as root, or must I boot to a floppy? > I just tried 'fdisk -B ad0', and it has correctly 'demoted' the boot manager to just go ahead and boot the first partition. Is there any risk of munging an entire system when tossing around fdisk and bootcfg commands? Do I have to "relabel" slices as bootable in /stand/sysinstall or just use `fdisk -B [device containing Fbsd OS here]` ? > Option 2) applies - there is a serious bug somewhere, but it's not in FreeBSD: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair :) > RegardsPatrick. He-he, I remember good ol' PEBKAC, haven't seen PEBKAC since May 1995! :) Thanks for continued assistance, hugely desired... -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message