From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 02:39:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA27173 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 02:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.nation-net.com (www.nation-net.com [194.159.125.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA27077 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 02:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by www.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:41:09 +0000 Message-ID: <32426597.611A@nation-net.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:36:23 +0100 From: Paul Walsh X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Leonardo Cardoso wrote: > > > I need to recover my last boot manager (with Windows NT 4.0 and > > Windows 95), so I type the command "FDISK /mbr" in Win95. The boot manager > > of freeBSD was deleted and only the manager of the NT appears! > > > > When i try to install FreeBSD again, the boot manager don't works, > > and I can't boot in my second hard drive (where FreeBSD is installed)! > > Known bug. The boot manager was installed to the second drive, which of > course doesn't help. Install it yourself by grabbing the 'bootinst.exe' > and 'boot.bin' files out of /tools off of the CDROM or > ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/tools. Then run 'bootinst' to put booteasy > on. > > You'll have to do this from DOS. I assume WinNT has the same > write-protected boot sector that win95 does. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Is it true that bootinst has to be run from 'real' dos and not win95 dos? Regards Paul -- paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK