Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:49:14 -0700 (MST) From: jjreynold@home.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/20226: FAQ update for "win95 killed boot manager" question Message-ID: <200007271849.LAA44851@whale.home-net>
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>Number: 20226
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: FAQ update for "win95 killed mbr" question
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 27 11:50:03 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Reynolds
>Release: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD whale 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 26 20:23:29 MST 2000 root@whale:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHALE i386
>Description:
The description how to get back your MBR if Windows 95 or '98 "boorishly"
nukes it in a dual-boot situation has been enhanced to show the "boot0cfg"
command. Also, the "Windows 95" has been rev'ed to include Windows 95/98
because the same procedures apply to 98 as 95.
>How-To-Repeat:
See FAQ :)
>Fix:
Apply the following patch to /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
--- book.sgml.orig Thu Jul 27 11:08:53 2000
+++ book.sgml Thu Jul 27 11:38:03 2000
@@ -1306,22 +1306,22 @@
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
-<para>Can Windows 95 co-exist with FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
+<para>Can Windows 95/98 co-exist with FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
-<para>Install Windows 95 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
-manager will then manage to boot Win95 and FreeBSD. If you
-install Windows 95 second, it will boorishly overwrite your
+<para>Install Windows 95/98 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
+manager will then manage to boot Win95/98 and FreeBSD. If you
+install Windows 95/98 second, it will boorishly overwrite your
boot manager without even asking. If that happens, see
the next section.</para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
-<para> Windows 95 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
+<para> Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
</para></question><answer>
<para>You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in one of
-two ways:</para>
+three ways:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -1351,6 +1351,24 @@
prompt, be sure to select "Boot Manager."
This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the
installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy (or CD-ROM) and choose the
+<quote>Fixit</quote> menu item. Select either the Fixit floppy or
+CD-ROM #2 (the <quote>live</quote> file system option) as appropriate
+and enter the fixit shell. Then execute the following command:
+</para>
+
+<screen><prompt>Fixit# </prompt> <userinput>boot0cfg -B bootdevice </userinput></screen>
+<para></para>
+
+<para>substituting <quote>bootdevice</quote> for your real boot device such
+as ad0 (first IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0
+(first SCSI disk), etc.
+
+</para>
+
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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