Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:26:31 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk>, brian@worldcontrol.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Need a new MBR! Message-ID: <35813A97.9875E91F@softweyr.com> References: <3580C342.6288BE4D@softweyr.com> <19980611113542.63967@blueberry.co.uk>
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Wes Peters recently pleaded: % Is there anyway to reinstall BootEasy *without* creating a DOS % boot floppy first? Keith Jones wrote: > If you still have a FreeBSD boot floppy (or CDROM), you can boot > from that, and use /stand/sysinstall and fdisk to reinstall the MBR. > When in fdisk, select the device on which you are to install the MBR, > hit 'W' (write changes) without editing the partition information > (this will not hose your disk, honest!) and select 'BootEasy' on the > following screen, then OK. (Brian@worldcontrol.com had answered similarly, but was unsure of whether it would help, or just hose my system completely. ;^) It worked like a charm. I can now boot FreeBSD from the HD, and BeOS from the floppy, which is acceptable until I can confer with the BeOS support team. Thank you very much. Reply cc'd to questions for archival purposes. Great tech support, as usual, FreeBSD'ers. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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