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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:02:51 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: REVISED: Active partition problems with FreeBSD 4.0/NT dual-boot
Message-ID:  <20000609200251.E233@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000609192827.D233@parish>; from mark@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:28:27PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006091348340.33325-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> <20000609192827.D233@parish>

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On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:28:27PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> 

[snip]

> The only other way that I can see, without re-installing FreeBSD, is
> to get your system running and then boot FreeBSD from the Fixit floppy
> and dd(1) *only* the first 466 bytes of boot0 to your MBR (the PT is
                            ^^^^^
Typo! Should be 446, as per the dd command below. Sorry.

> the last 66 bytes - 64 bytes + the 2-byte signature) thus:
> 
>     # dd if=/boot/boot0 of=/dev/rda0 count=446
> 

[snip]

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