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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:46:13 -0400
From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To: Lionel <lionel.flandrin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Restoring freeBSD boot loader
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Lionel <lionel.flandrin@gmail.com> wrote:

>   I've had to install Windows XP in dual boot on a freeBSD box, and of
> course it erased the bootloader to replace it with its own. Now I'd like
> to restore the freeBSD bootloader.
> 
>   I've tried booting with the install CD and I use the fdisk utility to
> mark the fbsd partition bootable and then said I wanted to install the
> freeBSD bootloader, but I didn't know how to make it actually write the
> changes to the disk.
> 
>   So... is it possible to restore the bootloader this way? Maybe I could
> install lilo from a live CD but I don't want to install grub from
> windows because I'll probably remove it soon, but I think lilo just
> places itself in the boot segment so it should be fine.

3.8 in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>