Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:32:00 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Constantine Shkolnyy <stan@osgroup.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I just don't know... Message-ID: <19990611013200.F255@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <01BEB361.20AB00F0.stan@osgroup.com>; from Constantine Shkolnyy on Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:48:54PM -0500 References: <01BEB361.20AB00F0.stan@osgroup.com>
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On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:48:54PM -0500, Constantine Shkolnyy wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
"original" mbr, er, wouldn't that mean that FreeBSD saved a copy of
the mbr and that Winblows knew where to find it and restore it? In
the Wonderful World of Winblows it's a case of:
original mbr == standard mbr == ONLY mbr.
>
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