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To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Subject: Re: boot sector restoration
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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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