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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me!
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Is it possible to boot to 4.5-RELEASE floppies, start a fixit holographic shell (aggravation city, frustration state, 01010) and do a similar FreeBSD fdisk or mbr command?  Thanks for your continued help on this issue,
> On FreeBSD, the equivalent of "fdisk /mbr" is "fdisk -B", or maybe "fdisk -B ad0".
> 	<mike
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> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
> Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.

Okay, shweeeet, (now I remember seeing boot0cfg(8) somewhere!)  But this
has confy-yoositt me slightly in these two regards, [A] What the heck is
/boot/mbr file? [B] is it some kind of symlink to the actual MBR of my HD?
and [C] Must the user boot to floppies, or can the user boot normally and
SAFELY change the MBR (preferably via /stand/sysinstall while logged in as
root)?

Dankled chins,

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