> > To deal with a standard MBR, you have to use fdisk(8). Try: > > # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1 > > This will walk you through the current settings interactively, > letting you generate a slice table, change the active slice and > rewrite the boot code. > > Of course, just to confuse you, fdisk(8) will talk all about > "partitions", but be assured it actually means "slices" in *BSD speak. > (partitions are generated within each slice using disklabel(8) which > is a BSD specific thing. slices are generic for practically all > OSes that can run on the IA32 architecture from DOS onwards.)
Matthew, okay I think I see what fdisk is wanting. I wanted to run it by you before i did anything: here is the prompts I filles out. some prompts do have anything appear there i just hit return for the default value. Do I need to change the active partition back to anything after running the fdisk Program? I still want to boot from /dev/da0 for the time being. I just want /dev/da1 drive ready for booting if /dev/da0 fails. Am I on the proper course here? --- snip --- # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n] Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> Do you want to change it? [n] Partition 1 is marked active Do you want to change the active partition? [n] y Supply a decimal value for "active partition" [1] Are you happy with this choice [n] y Do you want to change the boot code? [n] y We haven't changed the partition table yet. This is your last chance. parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> 4: <UNUSED> Should we write new partition table? [n] y --- snip --- Happy Holidays, - noah _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"