Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:05:49 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018566993.77f10e@mired.org> Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! Message-ID: <200204071557.1177@.perimeter.co.za> In-Reply-To: <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org> References: <20020405231938.A16857@rochester.rr.com> <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za> <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org>
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On Sun 07 Apr 02 01:16, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za>, Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za> typed: > > On Sat 06 Apr 02 07:42, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > On FreeBSD, the equivalent of "fdisk /mbr" is "fdisk -B", or > > > maybe "fdisk -B ad0". > > > > I must beg to differ : I have recently been trying ... 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! I just tried 'fdisk -B ad0', and it has correctly 'demoted' the boot manager to just go ahead and boot the first partition. > They install two different things. fdisk installs /dev/mbr, which > should be the standard boot manager. boot0cfg installs /dev/boot0, > which is the FreeBSD boot manager. If you're getting a different > behavior, either 1) something is broken on your system, or 2) there's > a serious bug somewhere. Option 2) applies - there is a serious bug somewhere, but it's not in FreeBSD: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair :) RegardsPatrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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