Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 13:04:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lee <terryl@CS.Stanford.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Boot manager gone after Windows95 Message-ID: <3828.810417872@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Sep 1995 12:30:08 PDT." <Pine.SUN.3.91.950906122047.8681B-100000@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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> Okay, I just installed Windows 95 over my dos partition. It seems to > have wiped my Boot Manager so I can no longer access my FreeBSD > partition. The old sysinstall boot disk used to let you just write the > MBR, but I couldn't get the current boot disk to do it for me. What to do? Can you run OS-BS or BOOTEASY from a DOS box? > P.S. Does Windows95 have a new file system or did they just hack the old > one? Neither, actually. It uses the same old FAT filesystem but has "mapping files" to give you long filename -> 8.3 remapping. Jordan
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