MBR

Namik Dala nada at nada.refused.cc
Tue Jan 27 07:49:24 PST 2004


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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