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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 1995 00:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      bynum@NU.CS.FSU.EDU (Mark J. Bynum)
To:        bmk@dtr.com
Cc:        u509264@csi.UOttawa.CA, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Remove the BSD MBR
Message-ID:  <199504180405.AAA18074@grep.cs.fsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504172115.OAA18832@dtr.com> from "bmk@dtr.com" at Apr 17, 95 02:15:41 pm

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> 
> 
> [This is a FAQ]
> 
> From DOS, do FDISK /MBR.  This will restore a DOS MBR, and will allow
> you to boot from the primary partition (Set it to point to your Boot
> Manager partition).
> 
Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD? I have DOS on one disk and FreeBSD
on the second disk and fdisk doesn't do write the correct MBR when I do:

fdisk 2 /mbr

It just writes the MBR to the first disk which is not what I want it to do.

Any takers?


Thanks,

Mark Bynum
bynum@cs.fsu.edu




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