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From: larry@aurore.cbl.cees.edu (Larry Lentner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Reinstalling boot manager?
Date: 5 Feb 1996 23:55:31 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Lab.
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I have FreeBSD and DOS installed on the same hard disk and I'm using
the FreeBSD boot manager to boot between the two. The boot manager got
nuked by a DOS virus; is there a way to reinstall it without wiping
the hard disk?

Thanks in advance,
Larry