On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:59:11AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > No, boot0 is just a normal file that is 512 bytes long. There is > > nothing special about it. In it is a bootloader program that can be > > used to boot FreeBSD, and if you run it during boot, it will read the > > partition table and look for all OSes. I think it will modify the > > partition table, though, marking the last OS you booted into, but that's > > the program running doing that, the file itself is harmless. > > Ok. I must have used some other command then, which resulted in my > first disk MBR getting over-written ... strange. :-/ > > By the way, does the fact that NTLDR is on my first disk, while > FreeBSD (and hence its MBR boot0) is on my second disk complicate > matters? I mean, you mention boot0 will modify my partition table to > reflect which OS was booted last -- will it by any chance modify the > partition table on the first disk and hence mess it? >
You can disable this behavior of boot0 when you install the MBR on the second disk using the "-o noupdate" argument to boot0cfg. > > -- > Rakhesh > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
