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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Re-installing bootmanager
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On 2003-05-12 11:52, Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I tried to follow some suggestions I got on this list to get my
> self-made mirror-disk to boot.
>
> The tip was the use /stand/sysinstall - config - fdisk - disklabel and
> let it install a bootmanager.
> I tried to do this, however it did not write my slices to the disk.
> (no errors or anything, it just didn't write it).
>
> I used fdisk from the console, and that worked.
> However, now I don't have the disk bootable.

Use the boot0cfg(8) utility to write BootEasy in the MBR of your media.

	# boot0cfg ad1

- Giorgos