mbr and boot disks?
Björn König
bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri Oct 21 03:20:02 PDT 2005
Mark wrote:
> I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to
> reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot
> disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd?
> Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue to
> dual boot?
Hello Mark,
use disc1* of FreeBSD. Boot from CD-ROM and choose "Fixit" and then
"CDROM/DVD" and run "boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0". That's it.
*) The live filesystem is on disc2 if you use FreeBSD 5.3 or previous
versions.
Regards
Björn
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