Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:16:31 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager? Message-ID: <3BD035BF.5B828B59@ntlworld.com> References: <20011018162650.Q1955-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>
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Lamont Granquist wrote: > > So, whats the easist way to recover from a clobbered boot manager in > FreeBSD? I kind of naively assumed that this would be easy to do from an > installation CDROM (4.3-RELEASE) but I failed to get it to work. Going > Configure->Fdisk in sysinstall didn't work for me. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Download smart boot manager from http://www.gnuchina.org/~suzhe/ Put it on a floppy. This should let you boot your existing FreeBSD. Fix it with /stand/sysinstall - fdisk, write. Be careful! IMHO this is a _must have_ tool. I use it to boot a _hidden_ partition on our work machines, from which I can restore the Win95 data. Poor mans ghost. -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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