On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:00:12PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > I can't write FreeBSD bootloader because reinstalled Windows overwrite it > > with standard MBR and sysinstall don't allow to write bootloader anymore. > > The only thing I not try yet in that situation was 'dd' - I was too lasy > > to find needed byte. > > The MBR is the first sector of the disk. FWIW, if you're coexisting with > Windows, it's easier to let Windows have its way with the MBR and use > Windows' own boot loader. The setup is simple, copy a boot sector and edit > a text file, and Windows won't mess with it. There are a lots of ways. When I don't know kern.geom.debugflags=16 trick yet, I istall 3rd party boot manager under Windows. But all this is not relevant to the discussed subject: why FreeBSD root can't change disk partition without quasi-shamanic dance with unnatural and undocumented sysctls? Why Linux root can do it freely? -- http://ache.pp.ru/Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 02:28:22 UTC
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