At least on 1.4.1 fdisk -i prompts for 
		"Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks? [n]"
	and
		"Should we write new partition table? [n]"

	Presumably you answer 'n' and 'y'?


		David/absolute

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, David Maxwell wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 01:02:34AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	You still have lilo present - I know the DOS 'fdisk /mbr' will fix
> > 	this, but I don't hve the NetBSD fdisk arguments to hand - maybe
> > 	someone else can answer?
> 
> >From fdisk(8):
> 
>      Finally, when all the data for the first sector has been accumulated,
>      fdisk will ask if you really want to rewrite sector 0.  Only if you reply
>      affirmatively to this question will fdisk write anything to the disk.
> 
>      The -i explicitly requests initialization of the master boot code (simi-
>      lar to what fdisk /mbr does under MSDOS), even if the magic number in the
>      first sector is ok.  The partition table is left alone by this (but see
>      above).
> -- 
> David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
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> 					      - Jamie Woods
>