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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:34:13 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
Cc:        questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: boot sector restoration
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981227173413.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981227091654.3966K-100000@barnowl>

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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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asmodai(at)wxs.nl                              we endeavour...
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