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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.
> 
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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

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