mbr and boot disks?

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Fri Oct 21 06:51:38 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.

That should work, but if at all possible, make a good backup with
dump(8) before getting started.

////jerry

> Regards
> Björn
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