Subject: Re: Updating boot code
To: None <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/03/1999 16:29:19
Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com> writes:
> Folks,
> 
> I've been reading man pages (bad boy, bad boy), and I'm now more
> confused that when I started.  There seem to be 3 different ways to
> manipulate the boot code on a i386:
> 
> 	a) fdisk -i

That manipulates MBRs, not the boot blocks.

> 	b) disklabel -B

That does nothing on the i386

>   and	c) installboot 

That installs boot blocks.

Perry