From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 11:22:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp04.prc.uic.edu (comp04.prc.uic.edu [128.248.230.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCE5137B407 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@comp04.prc.uic.edu) Received: (qmail 54658 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Aug 2001 18:22:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:22:45 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: ben Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to restore mbr using win2k? Message-ID: <20010810132245.A51950@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <3B721790.20008@stonehenge-net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3B721790.20008@stonehenge-net.com>; from ben@stonehenge-net.com on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:54:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > after hosing my win2k partition, i had to reinstall it. in the > process, of course, it wiped my mbr, leaving me bsd-less. i've > tried running > > tools/bootinst.exe boot.bin > > as suggested in sysinstall... There may be things in different Windows versions that prevent bootinst from working all the time. The FAQ suggests a couple of other ways of accomplishing what you want without allowing Windows to interfere. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message