From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 7: 3: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CF937B405 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 07:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (ndf-dial-196-30-223-8.mweb.co.za [196.30.223.8]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g37E2A524481; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:02:12 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Organization: Perimeter Networks CC Message-Id: <200204071557.1177@.perimeter.co.za> To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:05:49 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Peter Leftwich , mpd , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020405231938.A16857@rochester.rr.com> <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za> <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Sun 07 Apr 02 01:16, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za>, Patrick O'Reilly 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