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From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
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Subject: Re: boot sector restoration
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Thanks to both!

I could not remember the "undocumented feature" (its like so much
of what comes from Redmond...)

Lest anyone think FreeBSD installs are hard, try NT again. Maybe there
are some issues but FreeBSD at least works! Thanks team!

John

On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Casper wrote:

> Or use bootinst programm from FreeBSD/tools , if you want to restore BootEasy
> bootmanager .
> 
> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> > 
> > On 27-Dec-98 John Kenagy wrote:
> > 
> > > I find I must put a dos partition back on a machine I had dedicated
> > > to FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > It seems that the boot sector (I'm pushing the envelope of my limited
> > > knowlege here) is gone. The error is "no bootable partition."
> > 
> > Use Mickeysoft's undocumented option:
> > 
> > fdisk /mbr     restores the Master Boot Record... Have, ehm, fun =P
> > 
> > ---
> > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven            Life is the only Pain
> > asmodai(at)wxs.nl                              we endeavour...
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