MBR blown away
Ken Stevenson
ken at allenmyland.com
Fri Feb 10 20:22:43 PST 2006
Peter wrote:
> I need help.
>
> I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now
> I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4)
> boot manager:
>
> 1. DOS
> 2. FreeBSD
> 3. FreeBSD
>
> I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3 but the
> windows/dos option is fried.
>
> My current strategy is to use boot0cfg:
>
> # boot0cfg -B
>
> But I'm a little squeemish. I don't want to be locked out of FreeBSD (I
> barely use Windows but I still would like it back for Visio). Any
> guidance?
>
> --
> Peter
>
This article might provide a clue:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1918391,00.asp
--
Ken Stevenson
Allen-Myland Inc.
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