Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:48:30 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk vs. sysinstall slicing and bootstrapping Message-ID: <20020809204830.AA3045D04@ptavv.es.net>
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I know that boot0 in stable will allow booting from a slice located more than 1023 cylinders into the disk. I have done just that on an installed system. Works great. But if I use either boot0cfg -B or fdisk -B to write a boot block, it seems unable to deal with booting this partition. Is there a way to safely re-install an mbr with the sysinstall tools without losing the data in the root slice and get the system to be bootable again? I have both install and fixit CDs. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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