From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 12:39:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA17868 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:39:08 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17862 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:39:05 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HSWWYGTN8G003TYP@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 21:39:09 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id VAA14125; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 21:51:45 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 21:51:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: Win95 clobbers FreeBSD boot manager In-reply-to: <9507151912.AA25048@kudonet.com> from "Justin Cooper" at Jul 15, 95 12:12:54 pm To: datura@kudonet.com (Justin Cooper) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199507151951.VAA14125@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 831 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi, > I had FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my machine using the boot manager that was supplied. > I just installed Windows 95 build 950r6 and I think it does something to the > msdos.sys file, so that when i boot, i get Win95 only. I'm using a single > scsi drive for both. I still have my boot and root floppies, is there any > way to get back to bsd using these? I think you can install the FreeBSD bootmanager with no harm to get back to your FreeBSD partition. You may instead install a different boot manager (osbs2beta) . msdos.sys is (afaik) a secondary boot file that resides in the DOS (Win95) partition and has nothing to do with FreeBSD boot. > > trapped in windows, > justin > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950701 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-