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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
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