Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 14:16:50 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Jeff <jlr@soltec.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I get rid of boot manager? Message-ID: <36654BD2.554A8F27@uk.radan.com> References: <199812021339.HAA20882@photon.soltec.net>
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Jeff wrote: > > Question, please: A while back, on my multi boot sys, which is Win > 9x/NT 4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.7 I believe I came up with a virus. One > morning while getting on the PC I noticed my ONLY option at the > boot prompt was F1 to go to DOS, no more F5 to go to FreeBSD. > My question is, How can I get rid of boot easy option, the MBR and > start over again, without destroying the functional system of Win > 9x/NT4.0, and then re-install? It seems I remember a DOS > command (I have also the complete DOS 6.22 on c:\) like format > /mbr > FDISK /MBR BTW, why not use NT4's boot mangler. My m/c triple boots 95/NT4/FreeBSD 2.2.7 and that's what I use. I'm not suggesting that it's better than booteasy, but I suspect that as you've got it set up now, when you want 9x or NT you've got to go through 2 menus, booteasy, then NT's. The way I've done it you can start all 3 OS's from one menu. How to set it up is detailed in the FAQ. Basically you dd(1) the first sector of the FreeBSD partition to a file in C:\ (e.g. BOOTSECT.BSD) then edit C:\BOOT.INI and copy the entry for DOS/WIN9x, changing the filename from BOOTSECT.DOS to BOOTSECT.BSD and the label. Also, if your MBR gets corrupted, as it is now, you can boot from the NT setup floppies and run the repair utility. HTH > The problem is though, and I admit my inabilities here readily, I > don't want to wipe out the whole MBR and lose both my current > sys functionality. I am assuming most of you are already way out > in front of me on this, and most of what I'm saying is probably > redundant & bores you to tears. :) > > I would sure appreciate any help and substantive advice. > > Jeff Rogers > jlr@soltec.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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