From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 07:25:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26136 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 07:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26119 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 07:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA15818; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:25:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35813A97.9875E91F@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:26:31 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Jones , brian@worldcontrol.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Need a new MBR! References: <3580C342.6288BE4D@softweyr.com> <19980611113542.63967@blueberry.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters recently pleaded: % Is there anyway to reinstall BootEasy *without* creating a DOS % boot floppy first? Keith Jones wrote: > If you still have a FreeBSD boot floppy (or CDROM), you can boot > from that, and use /stand/sysinstall and fdisk to reinstall the MBR. > When in fdisk, select the device on which you are to install the MBR, > hit 'W' (write changes) without editing the partition information > (this will not hose your disk, honest!) and select 'BootEasy' on the > following screen, then OK. (Brian@worldcontrol.com had answered similarly, but was unsure of whether it would help, or just hose my system completely. ;^) It worked like a charm. I can now boot FreeBSD from the HD, and BeOS from the floppy, which is acceptable until I can confer with the BeOS support team. Thank you very much. Reply cc'd to questions for archival purposes. Great tech support, as usual, FreeBSD'ers. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message