Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:07:55 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018503724.67c309@mired.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! Message-ID: <20020406010330.M72615-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <15534.35499.959649.111092@guru.mired.org>
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Is it possible to boot to 4.5-RELEASE floppies, start a fixit holographic shell (aggravation city, frustration state, 01010) and do a similar FreeBSD fdisk or mbr command? Thanks for your continued help on this issue, > On FreeBSD, the equivalent of "fdisk /mbr" is "fdisk -B", or maybe "fdisk -B ad0". > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. Okay, shweeeet, (now I remember seeing boot0cfg(8) somewhere!) But this has confy-yoositt me slightly in these two regards, [A] What the heck is /boot/mbr file? [B] is it some kind of symlink to the actual MBR of my HD? and [C] Must the user boot to floppies, or can the user boot normally and SAFELY change the MBR (preferably via /stand/sysinstall while logged in as root)? Dankled chins, -- 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
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