From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 03:12:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA14215 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 03:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA14180 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 03:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA03793; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:11:59 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:11:59 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Paul Walsh cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager In-Reply-To: <32426597.611A@nation-net.com> 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, 20 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > 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? At least for me it didn't work from Win95 DOS mode. I had to boot the DOS 6.22 floppy to get it to install. > > > Regards Paul > > > > -- > paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons > 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK > Nadav