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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: broken MBR
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:03:01PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote:
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> writes:
> 
> > But unless the OP wants the specific boot loader from and MS-DOS disk,
> > he can get the same effect _without_ usinf non-FreeBSD tools by using 
> > fdisk -B <diskname>
> 
> I used the FreeBSD livefs fixit mode and executed this 
> 
> fdisk -B /dev/ad4 
> it complained that "no geom found" but it worked 

I think this might go away if you do sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
prior to the fdisk.

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