In article <1353768334.2641.21.camel@q> you write: >Thank you! You're welcome! > >On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 15:14 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: >> Don't want to try 9.1RC3? > >I thought it would be better to start with something "stable" as a >newbie and now burning already is in progress. > Well I don't think there'll be many changes from RC3 to release, and you can use freebsd-update to get to -release after it's out anyway.
>> (I think you can also back it up, but make sure you don't restore the >> slice table in the mbr too if you add the bsd slice from bsdinstall, >> only the actual bootcode.) > >I backup the first 512 bytes: >dd if=/dev/sda of=MBR_sda-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1 > >So I should restore from byte 0 to byte 439 only if a restore should be >needed? > That does sound correct. (tho I haven't verified the exact number 439.) >I assume that there's also a way to recover a broken partition table >with "BSD information" if needed and no backup should be available? > There is sysutils/scan_ffs in ports tho I didn't have to try it yet. HTH, :) Juergen PS: I have Cc'd the freebsd-questions list as this no longer really is a multimedia topic... (Yes I should have done that earlier, sorry.) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"