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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD MBR bootcode problem. Date: 1 Jan 1995 20:24:15 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3e731f$pp1@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <kientzleD1n5D9.MqL@netcom.com> <kientzleD1n8ts.GnB@netcom.com> <3e31aq$ja8@agate.berkeley.edu> <kientzleD1opDy.KzJ@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <kientzleD1opDy.KzJ@netcom.com> kientzle@netcom.com writes: > >I don't know how it happened. It may have been when the MBR bootcode >from the hard disk kept grinding the floppies: I tried sticking a floppy >in and then pressing F1 to see if that would help. (Didn't, of course.) >Or it may have been something else. But it got there. Maybe you have a virus. Otherwise the only way the bootcode would get onto a floppy is if you put it there. >P.S. Thanks to the many pointers people gave to DOS format's /mbr option. >Unfortunately, my DOS 6.22 system complains `invalid switch' when >I type `format /mbr'. Harumph. "fdisk /mbr", not "format /mbr" restores the MBR on a harddisk. Use 'format /s /u' on a floppy disk. -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================