Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:38:04 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbr and boot loader Message-ID: <20050614143804.GA67002@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <1a8aebce050614071936c0b001@mail.gmail.com> References: <1a8aebce050614071936c0b001@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:19:53PM +0200, rusel wrote: > Hello, > bitch# uname -a > > FreeBSD bitch 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 > UTC 2004 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > I`ve got fbsd & winxp, now I have to format this stupid microshit coz > its still reeboting itself ... and now, how to safely reinstall > winshit without crushing mbr ... You can't. It will always overwrite the MBR. But you can just mark your FreeBSD slice as bootable afterwards to get back into FreeBSD after the reinstall. Joerg
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