From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 7: 9:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw-ra06.raytheon.com (fw-ra06.RAYTHEON.COM [192.27.4.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE00150DF for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hcwillenbring@west.rsc.raytheon.com) Received: from raygate.rsc.raytheon.com ([147.16.5.21]) by fw-ra06.raytheon.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA18464; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redwood.rsc.raytheon.com (redwood.RSC.RAYTHEON.COM [155.157.138.42]) by raygate.rsc.raytheon.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA07659; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:08:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from west.rsc.raytheon.com ([155.157.76.39]) by redwood.rsc.raytheon.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA21897; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:08:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <37FB57DE.CDDB7172@west.rsc.raytheon.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:08:32 -0600 From: Hank Willenbring Organization: Raytheon Systems Company - Denver Operations X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install FreeBSD 3.2 wipes out Win95 boot mgr (bug??) :| Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Problem Summary: Help with recovering Win95 boot manager after installing FreeBSD 3.2 using CD-ROM System Specs: CPU: PII 233MHz RAM: 32 MB Hard Drives: 2 GB Maxtor IDE (primary master) 12 GB Maxtor IDE (primary slave) CD-ROM: 32x NEC Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Co-Share OS: Windows95 (This has been installed on the first disk) BIOS: Phoenix 4.0 (allowed me to install FreeBSD 3.2 from CD-ROM). Installation Medium: CD-ROM FreeBSD 3.2 from Walnut Creek << cool install program >> Problem Description: The original system configuration has the 2GB Maxtor IDE hard drive with Windows95 installed. I bought another hard drive (12 GB - lots of room to play!!) with the intention of installing FreeBSD 3.2 on the primary slave IDE hard drive and use BootEasy to toggle between the two operating systems. When installing FreeBSD, I used the "novice" installation procedure (as suggested in the manual). There is a menu for configuring the hard disk drives. The menu selection looked something like: [ ] wd0 // <- 2 GB hard drive [ ] wd1 // <- 12 GB hard drive I selected "wd0" (so that the system would at least recognize the drive there - as the book suggested), and immediately selected "Q" (quit) since I did _not_ want (or need) any disk partitions from this drive. I was then prompted for what boot manager I wanted to use, from which I selected "[*] None" because I did not want the existing boot manager changed. The menu selections eventually went back to configuring the second hard drive (12 GB), and this time I selected "A" for using all of the drive and I also selected "no" to the "dangerously dedicated" menu since, in the "Disk Drive" chapter, it suggested doing this if the disk is to be entirely dedicated to FreeBSD. I selected "BootMgr" to be installed in the MBR for this disk (my BIOS allows alot of flexibility in booting from different computer medium in any order; hard drives (in any order), CD-ROM, floppy disks - nice! :) I then went through the rest of the standard installation and everything seemed to install ok. After the installation was complete, I changed the boot sequence to boot from the original 2 GB hard drive (expecting that Window95 would be booting) only to find out that an error was posted stating "Operating System Not Found" (?????) :( I booted from a Windows95 floppy disk to trouble shoot. The 2 GB disk is fine (all data is still there) except that the MBR is wiped-out [this would appear to me to be a bug since I specified "[*] None" for the MBR]. Is there a way that I can recover the MBR so that I can bring Windows95 back up?? I looked at the "disklabel" utility and it is not obvious that it will work for Windows95. If you have any suggestions, you can save me alot of pain of re-installing Win95 (not to mention my wife will be _much_ happier if she can get back to using her Win95 applications soon!!). New to the FreeBSD community but a long time Unix hacker. Thanks, Hank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message