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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:10:35 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Namik Dala typed:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote:
> > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only 
> > have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is 
> > there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR?
> 
> This
> 
>   dev=/dev/ad0 # change this
>   dd if=$dev of=/boot/mbr.backup bs=512 count=1
>   dd if=/boot/mbr of=$dev bs=512 count=1
 
Don't do this. It'll overwrite your partition table. Use:

fdisk -B [-b /boot/mbr] /dev/ad0

instead.

Ruben

> should to the trick.
> 
> 						-Namik-
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