Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:10:35 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR Message-ID: <20040127161035.GA64706@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040127154902.GB63647@snickers.dahoam> References: <Law12-F69ayRv7O55mL00023096@hotmail.com> <20040127154902.GB63647@snickers.dahoam>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Namik Dala typed: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote: > > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only > > have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is > > there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR? > > This > > dev=/dev/ad0 # change this > dd if=$dev of=/boot/mbr.backup bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/boot/mbr of=$dev bs=512 count=1 Don't do this. It'll overwrite your partition table. Use: fdisk -B [-b /boot/mbr] /dev/ad0 instead. Ruben > should to the trick. > > -Namik- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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