Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:51:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?=) Cc: Mark <mark17@shaw.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbr and boot disks? Message-ID: <200510211351.j9LDpZ6t015305@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4358C10D.7050301@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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> > Mark wrote: > > > I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to > > reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot > > disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd? > > Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue to > > dual boot? > > Hello Mark, > > use disc1* of FreeBSD. Boot from CD-ROM and choose "Fixit" and then > "CDROM/DVD" and run "boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0". That's it. > > *) The live filesystem is on disc2 if you use FreeBSD 5.3 or previous > versions. That should work, but if at all possible, make a good backup with dump(8) before getting started. ////jerry > Regards > Björn > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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