Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:48:54 -0500 From: Constantine Shkolnyy <stan@osgroup.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: I just don't know... Message-ID: <01BEB361.20AB00F0.stan@osgroup.com>
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On Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:41 PM, rick hamell [SMTP:hamellr@dsinw.com] wrote: > > > > C:\> fdisk /mbr > > > > But where is the original boot sector stored? Wouldn't it be more > > reliable to copy it back? fdisk will copy a standard boot sector > > and sometimes it may be different from the original one. It is not > > safe to suggest such a use of fdisk in general case, without prior > > knowing of his configuration. > > That's what /mbr does, it restores an orginal copy of the boot > sector. Besides unless he has other boot managers in addition, there is > no reason to not use it. Exactly. I just wanted to draw your attention that you people should always add the above warning to your advices to use fdisk /mbr or the machine may be rendered unusable. Get an unusable machine instead of machine with F? prompt - this is not what he wants :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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