From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 27 13:43:48 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E67C93C37 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:43:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm27-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm27-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E98D1E49 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1482846070; bh=xbk365drX9NMBSyfZbRWtNoxCupZQJSteOEwhdm+8jc=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=BrV8gU43P909paf8mAfIFxn9jmYPytSJE3r8ushrVEZCUDN5xF25u3Wr3Lheso0JCSuYzRCiJmFm6lNbEtxuB+5WijOuzPkaTZC1ur2uPadnWBiJgS9GS+xkLuDOhIUVpXB4HhUosEGWcaC9KMpl3a177Gny9CfhywmECTlDmTm+SGkbf8WZkB35Pxs4LBD4DZ39gvgHs6nAYje9Nu2L3x47n/aNl6z8B1BscXZ3fl0QDGuYoYnN+1hkyzuNvyoPGNRZJNdCzKz96GuQ7Mt4bOA3CbuY3jgHffYZZ9MKu+9EvzEsy9f/A1J1msmC+rVe7DTOEtsaMY0c/QnB/UXzYg== Received: from [212.82.98.50] by nm27.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Dec 2016 13:41:10 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.79] by tm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Dec 2016 13:41:10 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp116.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Dec 2016 13:41:10 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 15754.36849.bm@smtp116.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: MZpMB5kVM1m_vAd7Di2HSut9FPKqfqZOTDBX7E4a1YNAdHa He0sQ4nJQjx09oDRLbqCJqDGcs7244XMrH3fQ0mFzu9LCPDaSoBR3G9YlpaH GNQmc9N_7NbtYgkaHawgv72iyFK4g4xMwPviHFtWjHS7UL_QfA5kp9fD32zv dOTnko0.glGa.0a.STFajD1FalMSf3jMyDSTD.O5mmPkSLOForIxN07xs7bz QzHTkXyTTz_IbVt5lj2FioaTHYssMHOlxwQunf_nLGZTZdr_PaQXpzLE4PlN Ku0jx32KS_wJtbIv4Rb59yjfCC5391fSC7GKGMbelMRu6aszc0geNC6Eoi2S PUivqkl3J7STnzvA3wCJEj_fpDtQe9LE9FfPBWshpNwzdco.n3Wd.gT0whT2 OQbqgqRA54H8pITD8taT9Kgc_EJExBT5Asq55.61nZd1PPIihQJKd9sRLQOe VHPqO.L5It63R6i6WxX1tWO3LcjzfjmS7JkYLLbyWHfaTzvIs0r7qPjPKRoJ MxUNwYjuCjdkNKyRyXEN1d.EIF4R5HnKPmGVbytVqrV44kizROkl1I.WHPWW 6uLBJErTdvu57zgrlul1gebVAbPHtaw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:41:08 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1-19-ge7206c0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:43:48 -0000 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