Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:37:14 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: "Kerry Davis" <kedavis@uswest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place Message-ID: <20001012.22371400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <0cde01c0348f$bb1d2130$0200000a@system> References: <0cde01c0348f$bb1d2130$0200000a@system>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/12/00, 10:02:28 PM, "Kerry Davis" <kedavis@uswest.net> wrote=20 regarding Re: Install with DOS partition already in place: > That might be helpful, if I had a working system. Never say never :-) There are online man pages at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi =20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> > To: Kerry Davis <kedavis@uswest.net> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:57 PM > Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > On 10/12/00, 9:48:11 PM, "Kerry Davis" <kedavis@uswest.net> wrote > regarding Re: Install with DOS partition already in place: > > how do I reinstall ONLY the Boot Manager? without going through the= > whole > > install thing again? > man boot0cfg > Best regards, > Salvo Oooops, I decidedly overlooked, you are quite right. You should be able to restore your boot manager via sysinstall or by=20 performing such a procedure as the following (from a letter of Lucas=20 Bergman's sent on April 2000, retrieved from my personal archives): <blockquote> Boot from the first CD. Then choose the FIXIT option from sysinstall. Insert the second CD when it asks, and jump over to the fixit shell with <Alt>-<F4>. From the shell, mount your FreeBSD drive # mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt or whatever. Then, you can refresh the MBR with # chroot /mnt # mount -a # /usr/sbin/boot0cfg -Bv ad0 Of course, check boot0cfg(8) for details. The `mount -a' step is, of course, unnecessary if your /usr is on the same partition as /. </blockquote> =20 As an alternative, if you play a little with sysinstall, e.g. if you=20 install the boot manager not modifying your slice & partitions=20 information, and then you leave the installation, that should do the=20 trick. There should also be step-by-step instructions (or close to=20 that) in the mail archives, too. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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