From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 10:26:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22126 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA22107 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:26:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01475; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:23:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:23:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Erik Nguyen cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD boot manager to work with Win 95 In-Reply-To: <32F2EB55.15F0@themall.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Erik Nguyen wrote: > Hi I used to able to access both of my OS from FreeBSD boot manager when > I was using Windows 3.11. Since I installed Win95 and RE-INSTALLED > FreeBSD afterward (w/ the boot manager installed as well) I couldn't no > longer access to BSD. As soon as the system come up it goes straight to > Win95. And if I hit F8 and choose Dos OS then all it gave me is Dos 6.2 > OS environment. Whatever happened to FreeBSD boot manager? How come the > software didn't kick in before Win 95 starts? Windows95 flushed the boot manager. Reinstall it by running 'bootinst.exe' off the CDROM, or download it and 'boot.bin' from ftp.freebsd.org. Boot to a DOS 6.x floppy and run it and BootEasy will be restored. This is known Win95 behavior. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major