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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:06:04 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
To:        Marko Lerota <mlerota@iskon.hr>
Cc:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: broken MBR
Message-ID:  <20080314120604.GA9877@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <86prtxwot6.fsf@zid.claresco.hr>
References:  <86abl43yrx.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47D7D159.3060100@ensmp.fr> <fr8k4c$jgo$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080312175755.80371176.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <86prtxwot6.fsf@zid.claresco.hr>

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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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