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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:46:02 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org>
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:39:44PM -0400, yo _ typed:
> Hello All!
> 
> Unfortunatly, i was having a minor hard disk problem on my first FreeBSD 
> installation, and (so used to Debian) i thought i could fsck after 
> "shutdown now". Apparently this was not the case, as my file systems were 
> still mounted. After a quick re-install, with backups, it appears my MBR is 
> corrupted as it will not start the /boot/loader and my BIOS recognizes my 
> disk as a "non system disk" (FreeBSD has been re-installed, to get into the 
> system i use the boot2 from the bootable CD).
> 
> Is there anyway i can manually install the FreeBSD boot loader while in the 
> system? I figured it is dd'ing the /boot files to the beginning of my hard 
> disk, but i don't know what location nor how safe this is. Thank to all of 
> you in advance!

Try boot0cfg(8)

ruben

> -Rian Hunter
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