Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:01:15 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot floppy, missing "install bootmanager"-only submenu Message-ID: <199512192101.WAA01389@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951212221904.215A-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Dec 12, 95 10:27:20 pm
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hasn't Andreas Klemm said ? ...
>
> Hi Jordan !
>
> We spoke about that some weeks ago. You said weeks ago on IRC,
> that you'd implemented me idea, to offer a "write bootmanager"-
> only menue point on the boot floppy just for the case, that
> Windows95 or Windows NT nuked your main boot sector during
> installation.
>
> Now I got the new 2.1 installation floppy via ftp and I saw nothing at
> all on the top menues.
>
> The only thing I saw was the menue about installing or not installing
> the boot manager after leaving the partitioning menu ...
> But it doesn't seem to write it immediately ...
>
> What I wanted was a simple menue, to "refresh/reinstall" the
> bootmanager. It should be accessable in the toplevelmenue ...
>
> What about it ?! You said, it would be there on the 2.1 floppy,
> I didn't find it ?! Am I getting old ? ;-)
>
what about:
dd if=bteasy17 of=/dev/yourdrive bs=446 count=1
this way it worked often for me - bteasy17 is uuencoded in
/usr/src/release/sysinstall
t
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