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From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help Need to Fix boot sector
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 09:03:37 -0400
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Ron Bolin wrote:
> 
> Help,
> 
> Does anyone know how to restor the boot block to enable freebsd
> to boot off sd0. I have NT and FreeBSD 2.1R on one disk. I was
> using osbs to boot either OS. Somehow the NT diskadmin program
> made it only possible to boot NT. I can boot FreeBSD from sd0
> by using the boot floppy and selecting sd(0,a)/kernel. How can
> I restore the master boot block to boot freeBSD without having
> to completely re-install FreeBSD?

MORE: I tried bootinst.exe, that blew away the NT boot code,
and I still can't boot FBSD from sd0 unless I use the floppy.

I also tried fdisk -u sd0, to force a bootinit. That did not work
either. I hope someone out there has a thought on how I can fix
the boot for sd0 other than a re-install. 

Thank's in advance.

Ron
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