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Subject: Re: question installing 9.1
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On Mon, 6 May 2013, doug wrote:

> I installed 9.1-release amd 64 from the DVD. I intended to leave the 
> obligatory windows 7. I shrunk the primary windows partition and installed 
> FreeBSD. I never got an option to install the multi-partition boot record. 
> Rather the install overwrote the MBR with a boot record to boot FreeBSD. 
> While I appreciate the irony is there a way to make that option appear or is 
> the only solution to rewrite it after the fact?

boot0cfg -B /dev/ada0 (ada or what ever your disk dev is)