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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:49:02 +0100
From:      Namik Dala <nada@nada.refused.cc>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MBR
Message-ID:  <20040127154902.GB63647@snickers.dahoam>
In-Reply-To: <Law12-F69ayRv7O55mL00023096@hotmail.com>
References:  <Law12-F69ayRv7O55mL00023096@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote:
> Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only 
> have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is 
> there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR?

This

  dev=/dev/ad0 # change this
  dd if=$dev of=/boot/mbr.backup bs=512 count=1
  dd if=/boot/mbr of=$dev bs=512 count=1

should to the trick.

						-Namik-



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