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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
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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. ;-)