no freebsd boot loader when re-installed another winXP

[Abu Khaled]

On 5/22/05, Edwin D. Vinas <xmisoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello everyone!
>  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? Pls help me :-(
>  thank you in advance!
> -edwin

Check the FreeBSD website under
FAQ -> Chapter 9 Disks, Filesystems, and Boot Loaders ->
How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD?

This helped me once to restore FreeBSD 4.7 after reinstalling W2K.
Good Luck

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Kind regards
Abu Khaled