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2004-Jan-08

Kian's Red Hat install overwrote boot loader for FreeBSD. To recover: boot FreeBSD CD and stop boot loader (by pressing space bar). Type:
unload
set currdev=disk1s1a
boot
(The devices can be seen with "lsdev".) Then once you get to a FreeBSD shell (as root):
fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0