From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 7:31: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09661512F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from u98jobj@stud.hh.se) Received: from gs177 (klart@gs177.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA06797; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:27:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <001701bf1007$789af560$b1102fc2@gsten.hh.se> From: =?iso-8859-1?B?Sm9lbCBCavZyaw==?= To: "Hank Willenbring" , References: <37FB57DE.CDDB7172@west.rsc.raytheon.com> Subject: SV: Install FreeBSD 3.2 wipes out Win95 boot mgr (bug??) :| Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:31:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =20 > 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!!). >=20 > New to the FreeBSD community but a long time Unix hacker. >=20 > Thanks, Hank. boot with your win95 disk and enter the following at the prompt: fdisk /mbr You should now be able to boot to win95. You will however not have the option to boot in to FreeBSD. There is a bootmanager in the tools directory called osbsbeta.exe that = you can install from windows that will work on multiple IDE disks and = worked very well for me. Do not forget to backup your MBR, it is still = in beta. Joel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message