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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:39:24 +0400
From:      Casper <casper@acc.am>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>, questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: boot sector restoration
Message-ID:  <368662BC.B45DDE3E@acc.am>
References:  <XFMail.981227173413.asmodai@wxs.nl>

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Or use bootinst programm from FreeBSD/tools , if you want to restore BootEasy
bootmanager .

Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> 
> On 27-Dec-98 John Kenagy wrote:
> 
> > I find I must put a dos partition back on a machine I had dedicated
> > to FreeBSD.
> >
> > It seems that the boot sector (I'm pushing the envelope of my limited
> > knowlege here) is gone. The error is "no bootable partition."
> 
> Use Mickeysoft's undocumented option:
> 
> fdisk /mbr     restores the Master Boot Record... Have, ehm, fun =P
> 
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