Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:18:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD rescue floppy Message-ID: <20020222001331.F29930-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <200202220435.XAA19968@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
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Nathan Mace wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > is there anyway to make a freebsd rescue floppy that can boot > freebsd if my MBR becomes unusable? the reason i ask is because i'm > getting ready to install grub over lilo...and if the install should > not go according to the plan i need to be able to boot back into > freebsd to fix it. please cc any replies to me There are more elegant solutions, but, in a pinch, the regular boot CD (or kern + mfsroot floppies) will get you out of some pretty sticky situations. To answer your question, you can pretty easily write out a new boot record with sysinstall from the boot disk(s) by going to the post-install config menu. I've done this myself on multi-boot systems when other operating systems write their own junk in the MBR. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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