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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