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From: Chris Coleman <chris@crow.ctc.edu>
To: Arabinda Bose <axb00@arrowsmith.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem during FreeBSD installation
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Dos, (hate to stoop so low) has an undocumented feature on fdisk.

Fdisk /bootmgr (I think i have the switch right) will fix the problem you 
are having with the boot sector of you disk.  it will rewrite your 
bootmanager.  I hope this works for you. 

Chris Coleman      	Chris@crow.ctc.edu

Lost in Space and Loving it.   

On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Arabinda Bose wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have a FreeBSD 2.0, released in Jan 1994. I had DOS/WINDOWS
>   installed on my Pentium 90MHZ and I blew up my hard disk
>   boot code during the installation of Free BSD. Could anyone
>   please help. 
> 
>   I partitioned my hard disk for DOS (400 Meg) and kept 412 Meg
>   for BSD. I installed the DOS on the machine first and then 
>   started installing FreeBSD from the boot diskette. 
>   I went through the partioning of file systems fine, allocated
>   swap space on 'b' and fixed the mount points for /, /usr, etc
>   and did "Proceed". It said, this will erase your hard disk,
>   proceed Y/N, I did a Yes and then it asked to reboot. After
>   the reboot, it came up with two options 
>    F1 DOS
>    F2 FreeBSD
>    Nothing happened when I press F1 or F2. 
> 
>    I deleted the BSD and tried to install DOS again but it gave the
>    similar prompt(F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD) during the reboot. I guess my 
>    boot record on the hard disk has got corrupted. Can you tell me 
>    how to get back again if I want to change my boot program on the 
>    harddrive ?
> 
>    I tried to format the "C" drive, it didn't help.
> 
>    Thanks in advane
> 
>    -- Arabinda Bose
>