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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Another boot mgr ? Date: 4 Feb 1997 00:09:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5d5uoj$emg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5cmk9s$5kc@nntp1.best.com> <5cu3co$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5d16qp$pqj@nntp1.best.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35031 burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) wrote: > > Say `aye' to the above final question. You sure _want_ to write the > > new partition table (with the updated boot code). > > Ok, I tried that (su'ed to root from current userid). No change. Funny. Maybe it never writes that bootstrap if you didn't change any value. Hmpf. Tell you what? UTSL! This looks like a bug in fdisk, but maybe intention. Watch out for the variable named `i_flag'. It will only be evaluated if `f_flag' is also set. So now, when i extended fdisk to make a better initial guess about the drive to work on, i didn't really those hidden gotchas. Feel free to submit a bug report if you've got a better version. .-) By now, call it as ``fdisk -f /dev/rwd0 -i'', and you should be going... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)