From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 6:40:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBD237B404 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020419134005.OHHD1901.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@max> for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:40:05 +0000 Message-ID: <200204190940060254.31EEDF68@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020418220655.S96175-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020418220655.S96175-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:40:06 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me.. FRUSTRATION!!!!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >> > 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? >> You have to be root. >You answered one part of a two-part question. Can I be logged in= regularly >as root, or must I boot up to a floppy or CDROM to repair the MBR to my >liking? Couldn't you just try it? That's what I did and it works fine from the= command line. You don't even have to boot single user. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message