From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 14:15:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95C014D04 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA77437; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:12:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:12:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Alexander Langer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Problem In-Reply-To: <19991114124554.F877@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The default FreeBSD boot manager can be reinstalled from sysinstall or from dos, also, from a dos boot floppy; instructions are in the tools directory on the cdrom or ftp.cdrom.com. =09Annelise On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Tonysux =A0 (tonysux999@hotmail.com): >=20 > > Ok, i installed FreeBSD today, and forgot to install the boot manager. = I figure, i can fix it by reinstalling, but i don't want reinstall because = it would take a long time again. So, how would I install the boot manager b= y using a sysinstall or a fixit disk without reinstalling? My book doesn't= help and the two IRC EFnet channels arn't helping either.=20 >=20 > Question is, what do you want? >=20 > What does boot _now_? >=20 > Nothing? Windows? Linux? >=20 > If Nothing, take the FreeBSD Fixit floppy and set the > FreeBSD-partition as active, using fdisk. (from Sysinstall) >=20 > If you have Windows _and_ FreeBSD and you want to decide on bootup, > what you'd like to boot, you should take a look at the OSBS > Bootmanager (that you have to install from DOS:) > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.1/i386/installation/misc/osbsb= eta.exe. >=20 > It is REALLY nice. >=20 > Alex > --=20 > I doubt, therefore I might be.=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message