From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 14:13:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCF516A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep3.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAD543FF2 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pnmurphy@cogeco.ca) Received: from earth.upton.net (d141-18-230.home.cgocable.net [24.141.18.230]) by fep3.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D5E413DD5; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:13:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:13:41 -0400 From: Paul Murphy Message-Id: <20030904171341.2b5da100.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <200309041543.h84Fhq7L012846@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200309041041.11669.algould@datawok.com> <200309041543.h84Fhq7L012846@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.93SJgTFMCWHUw)" cc: Jerry McAllister cc: "Andrew L. Gould" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Undo MBR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:13:52 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:13:52 -0000 --=.93SJgTFMCWHUw) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the replies. > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I [etc] > So, if there is nothing to be lost, just try it out and see what > happens. Smoke testing is a tried and true technique. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! > You kind of have to read the disklabel man page in conjunction with > the fdisk man page to make any sense of things, and then it may still > take some experimenting. Yes I think that's where I got my previous command line from (or someplace similar) although the example I read said 'count=15' vs. 'count=32' > If you have a bootable DOS disk with fdisk, you can clear the MBR > without destroying partitions by executing: > > fdisk /mbr I did know that, I just wanted to do it The FreeBSD Way(tm). > corresponding switches/parameters, but the questioner said there was > nothing to save on the disk Yes > and wanted to wipe it, so... Not necessarily, if I could do it without (potentially) destroying any data, that would be the ideal solution (for future reference). -- Cogeco ergo sum --=.93SJgTFMCWHUw) Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/V6sLTv5Mxsi/WPMRAphdAKCIpTyynzk/4KXW/AUZwOAoTci2MACgjXzb Q7i2f8gNBNK9+A4whSija0M= =z0EK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.93SJgTFMCWHUw)--