From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 22:16:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CED37C17C for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA06398; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:28:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Andrew Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot questions In-Reply-To: <20000706050225.52853.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrew Brown wrote: > I have been looking around now and i have not been able to find a clear > answer to the following problem. I need to reinstall windows but i know that > when i do it will erase my MBR where the BSD ( version 4.0 by the way) boot > loader is. So how do i > a.) make a bsd boot disk so that i can boot back into BSD when i reinstall > windows? The kern.flp, mfsroot.flp and fixit.flp images should get you back up. A custom floppy could be made if you really wanted. > b.) after using the boot disk to get back into bsd, how do i reinstall the > BSD boot loader? It has been while since I have done this so I won't try to tell you. You must do it exactly right. It is in the FAQ. Search for Windows and boot and record. Later, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message