Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:41:08 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: . (I haven't done multi-boot for many years now.) Message-ID: <20161227144108.0549ddc4@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1482843641.1249140.830409137.185C7E32@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1482843641.1249140.830409137.185C7E32@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Hi, consider to install FreeBSD, but for a transition test period to temporarily multi-boot or at least to keep backups of the Linux installs. You could copy a complete Linux install or backup to an archive, while booted to another Linux install or using a Linux live media by a simple "cp -ai" or "tar --xattrs -czf" and if necessary simply restore it. A backups of MBRs not necessarily could restore a bootloader, but it doesn't harm to backup the MBR , assuming MBR is used by "dd if=/dev/??? of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1". At least restoring an MBR by a systemd-nspawn (as a replacement for a chroot) from a live media is easy to do. Regards, Ralf
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