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Subject: Re: Crashed gmirror, single disk marked SYNC and wont boot...
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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.