From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 21:00:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26582 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 21:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from night.primate.wisc.edu (night.primate.wisc.edu [144.92.43.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26535 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 21:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by night.primate.wisc.edu; id XAA28284; 8.6.10/41.8; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:03:54 -0500 From: Paul DuBois Message-Id: <199609210403.XAA28284@night.primate.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Boot Manager To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:03:53 -0500 (CDT) Cc: paul@nation-net.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Sep 20, 96 06:46:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > You'll have to do this from DOS. I assume WinNT has the same >> > write-protected boot sector that win95 does. >> >> Is it true that bootinst has to be run from 'real' dos and not win95 dos? > >Yes. Windows 95 write-protects the boot sector to protect from boot >sector viruses. You have to use DOS ( < v7) to change it. To protect from boot sector viruses other than Win95, you mean. (Can you tell I'm writing right from an experience of having a Win95 install wipe out DOS/Win3.1 startup files located in an entirely separate partition and replace them with its own? Talk about predatory. Ugh.)