Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:21:01 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Mark <mark17@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbr and boot disks? Message-ID: <4358C10D.7050301@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <43582DD7.50208@shaw.ca> References: <43582DD7.50208@shaw.ca>
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Mark wrote: > I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to > reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot > disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd? > Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue to > dual boot? Hello Mark, use disc1* of FreeBSD. Boot from CD-ROM and choose "Fixit" and then "CDROM/DVD" and run "boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0". That's it. *) The live filesystem is on disc2 if you use FreeBSD 5.3 or previous versions. Regards Björn
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