Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:38:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.se> To: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashed gmirror, single disk marked SYNC and wont boot... Message-ID: <41D57A88-7C25-43C2-8426-1760EA976BCB@stromnet.se> In-Reply-To: <46CEB136.1090409@cyberleo.net> References: <8039436E-1824-4C2E-915B-9069DEF23B10@stromnet.se> <20070821143136.GD1132@garage.freebsd.pl> <441B87F4-5846-441B-B6B4-34694B483C73@stromnet.se> <77098FC1-E06C-4A0C-803F-038509F5F8CA@stromnet.se> <46CEB136.1090409@cyberleo.net>
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On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:21 , CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Johan Str=F6m wrote: >> altough, one thing that I got curious about. In the fdisk manpage it >> says -b can be used to change the bootcode.. and that default is >> /boot/mbr.. What is this? I checked md5 against boot0 and its not the >> same (altough I guess it might just be some boot0 with different >> config..). I never found any references to this mbr file in =20 >> neither man >> pages or handbook. > > boot0 is the pretty 'F1 FreeBSD' type boot menu. mbr is more like your > standard MS bootloader, that just boots the active slice of the =20 > current > disk. > > The latter is my favorite, as I despise multi-booting. I see. Shouldn't this info be in the manpages/handbook somewhere? =20 Like referenced from boot0cfgs manpage or something, and in the boot =20 section in handbook.
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