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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:32:23 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager?
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On 2005-07-06 10:27, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote:
> I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and
> was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this.
> I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident
> enough of what I was doing to risk trashing my install.

Its easy.  Just run boot0cfg with the right options :-)

	# boot0cfg -B -v /dev/ad0