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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:57:24 -0500
From:      "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
To:        "'Scott'" <scottro@despammed.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: re-installing the FreeBSD MBR.
Message-ID:  <000b01c21883$eff94b70$77fe180c@armageddon>
In-Reply-To: <20020620134921.A12192@mail.starlofashions.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott [mailto:scottro@despammed.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:49 PM
To: Eric F Crist
Subject: Re: re-installing the FreeBSD MBR.

Hi Eric--peculiarities in our sendmail server prohibit me from cc'ing
the list.  However, I've always found it easiest to stick a floppy in
the floppy drive then do
grub-install '(fd0)'

For some reason, this seems to properly put the necessary files in the
boot directory.

I have a page on grub by the way, that might be of use at
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/grub.html

Anyway, for the menu.lst, saying your default is WinXP


default=0
timeout=10

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,a) 
kernel /boot/loader

HTH
Scott Robbins
-----End Original Message-----

So, what you're saying is that listing the drive as fd0 will put the
correct boot files on my primary, non FreeBSD, WindowsXP hard disk?

Eric F Crist
President/Sys Admin
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
http://www.adtechintegrated.com




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