From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 22:17:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6400F37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1M6Iha32119; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:18:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:18:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD rescue floppy In-Reply-To: <200202220435.XAA19968@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Message-ID: <20020222001331.F29930-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Mace wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > is there anyway to make a freebsd rescue floppy that can boot > freebsd if my MBR becomes unusable? the reason i ask is because i'm > getting ready to install grub over lilo...and if the install should > not go according to the plan i need to be able to boot back into > freebsd to fix it. please cc any replies to me There are more elegant solutions, but, in a pinch, the regular boot CD (or kern + mfsroot floppies) will get you out of some pretty sticky situations. To answer your question, you can pretty easily write out a new boot record with sysinstall from the boot disk(s) by going to the post-install config menu. I've done this myself on multi-boot systems when other operating systems write their own junk in the MBR. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message