Bug 28800

Summary:	sysinstall provides no way to overwrite MBR without repartitioning.
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Joseph Mallett <jmallett>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-qa (Nobody) <qa>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	5.0-CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Joseph Mallett 2001-07-08 01:40:00 UTC

I've been having MBR issues with my new 5.0C box all day, and I've discovered that an (easy) way to overwrite the MBR (i.e. change to booteasy) on a disk without having to repartition would be nice, or maybe it just isn't obvious enough how to do it.

Fix: 

none.
How-To-Repeat: Try to change MBR contents from sysinstall without going through partition and commit.

Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-09-24 07:38:49 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->analyzed

I agree that we should add this functionality to sysinstall.

Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-09-24 07:38:49 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa

ra ra freebsd-qa list!

Comment 3 John Baldwin freebsd_committer

2001-12-11 01:13:23 UTC

State Changed
From-To: analyzed->closed

This functionality already exists in sysinstall and has for a very, very 
long time.  I've used it quite frequently.  Simply start up sysinstall, 
choose Configure -> FDisk, choose a disk, then hit 'W' to force a write. 
It will then prompt asking what type of MBR boot loader to use.  Choose 
which one you want and it will then update the MBR.