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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: /boot/mbr miscompiled?
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:58:15PM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've noticed lately that I can't install /boot/mbr using boot0cfg.
>=20
> [root@darklight:~]# boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr ad4
> boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code
>=20
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 512 Jun  6 17:45 /boot/mbr
> /boot/mbr: x86 boot sector
>=20
I think you'll have to use "fdisk -B" to do that.
(boot0cfg(8) only installs boot0 and boot0sio.)


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
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