From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 14:47:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from osgroup.com (unknown [38.229.41.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10E715238 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stan@osgroup.com) Received: from stan166 ([38.229.41.237]) by osgroup.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA23172 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:36:13 -0500 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:48:55 -0500 Message-ID: <01BEB361.20AB00F0.stan@osgroup.com> From: Constantine Shkolnyy Reply-To: "stan@osgroup.com" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: I just don't know... Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:48:54 -0500 Organization: Ashley Laurent, Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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