Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:19:05 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undo MBR Message-ID: <20030905001905.GB27357@webserver> In-Reply-To: <20030904175838.5e7d4e94.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> References: <20030903181348.5cbfcabb.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <200309031800.30413.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <20030904121125.GC88888@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030904173804.6000c9cb.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <20030904175838.5e7d4e94.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:58:38PM -0400 or thereabouts, Paul Murphy wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:38:04 -0400 > > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > > Errr... That's a little excessive. The quick way to remove the > > > FreeBSd boot manager and restore a standard MBR is: > > > > > > # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr ad0 > > > > > > (The OP might want to do that on his data disk ad2 as well). No > > > changes to the filesystems on those disks should be necessary. > > > > > > > THAT'S what I was looking for! I knew it should have something to do > > with boot0cfg, just didn't read the man page closely enough I guess. > > > > Hmm, problems... > > # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr ad0 > # boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code You need # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0 -- Josh
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