From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 16 12:36:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23898 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phluffy.lm.com (phluffy.lm.com [204.171.44.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23847 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Received: from localhost (myke@localhost) by phluffy.lm.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12005; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:35:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:35:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Holling X-Sender: myke@phluffy.lm.com To: Dan Strick cc: mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After installing W95 bootmgr failed ... In-Reply-To: <199810161839.LAA06444@math.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: After installing W95 bootmgr failed ... > > > > However I've been able to boot freeBSD from slice 2 without a bootmgr by > > just switching the activated partition and then rerun sysinstall and all > > was okey again. > > W95 happens. > > I normally fix it by booting a FreeBSD installation floppy, > visiting the partition menu, issuing a "w" command without > changing any paritions, and accepting the booteasy option > when prompted. I guess this is the same thing. Win95 and NT overwrite the MBR. In the "tools" subdirectory of the FreeBSD FTP site (or cdrom), there's a program called bootinst.exe and a file called boot.bin. Grab these, then run bootinst.exe from dos to reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager. There's also an alternative boot manager in tools. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message