Problems with booting & MBR

Stewart Morgan stewart at nameless-uk.com
Fri Aug 5 14:39:16 GMT 2005


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Hello,

Vittorio De Martino wrote:

| # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0
| fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory
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| and with
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| # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad1
| fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad1: No such file or directory

	I think this is because you're in multi-user mode and the drives are in
use (things mounted).  You might have better luck in single-user mode.



Stewart,

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