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Subject: Re: misc/28800: sysinstall provides no way to overwrite MBR without repartitioning. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:40:16 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 06:32:12 -0400
From: Brian McGovern <mcgovern@beta.com>
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Ummm... This one might be a closer with a note. If I remember correctly, 
selecting the 'hidden' 'W'rite option in the partition table prompts for 
the boot selection if it hasn't been set, then writes the information. 

It may be time to just unhide it.
	-Brian

 > Synopsis: sysinstall provides no way to overwrite MBR without repartitioning
.
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: murray
 > State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 23 23:38:49 PDT 2001
 > State-Changed-Why: 
 > I agree that we should add this functionality to sysinstall.
 > 
 > 
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 > Responsible-Changed-By: murray
 > Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 23 23:38:49 PDT 2001
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 > ra ra freebsd-qa list!
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