no freebsd boot loader when re-installed another winXP

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sun May 22 06:55:50 PDT 2005


"Edwin D. Vinas" <xmisoy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  i have a running dual-boot (FreeBSD and WinXP) before but when I got 
> hijacked by a SpyWare, i decided to re-install or repair my WinXP. what 
> WinXP installer did is it didnt format the current Windows but rather it 
> added a new bootable WinXP. so now, when the machine boots, it doesnt load 
> the FreeBSD boot loader but instead two WinXP Professional is being shown. 
> How do I recover the FreeBSD boot loader? I can't see any F1, F2 or F3 which 
> allows me to choose which OS to boot. It seems the newly installed WinXP has 
> removed the FreeBSD boot manager?

Boot FreeBSD from CD and use sysinstall or boot0cfg.

Fabian
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