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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:27:16 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Fred Wilson <skippy@pionet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot sector restore
Message-ID:  <20000921102716.A3040@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000701c023df$abb63c60$6d1248ce@199.120.116.1.pionet.net>; from "Fred Wilson" on Thu Sep 21 10:21:46 GMT 2000
References:  <000701c023df$abb63c60$6d1248ce@199.120.116.1.pionet.net>

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In the last episode (Sep 21), Fred Wilson said:
> I am getting an error, no boot sector on hard drive. Press esc.to
> retry boot. It will then boot. I think I need to restore the boot
> sector, if that is possible.

"fdisk -B" will reinstall the standard FreeBSD bootmenu MBR.  If you
want a minimal DOS-like MBR, use "fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr"

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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