From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 27 11:50:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C99D37C0FC for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA01386; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cx587235-a.chnd1.az.home.com (cx587235-a.chnd1.az.home.com [24.11.88.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAB837BC82 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jjreynold@cx587235-a.chnd1.az.home.com) Received: from whale.home-net (whale [192.168.1.2]) by cx587235-a.chnd1.az.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09371 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:49:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jjreynold@dolphin.home-net) Received: (from jjreynold@localhost) by whale.home-net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA44851; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:49:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jjreynold@mailhost.home-net) Message-Id: <200007271849.LAA44851@whale.home-net> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:49:14 -0700 (MST) From: jjreynold@home.com Reply-To: jjreynold@home.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: docs/20226: FAQ update for "win95 killed boot manager" question Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 @@ -Can Windows 95 co-exist with FreeBSD? +Can Windows 95/98 co-exist with FreeBSD? -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 +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. - Windows 95 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back? + Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back? You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in one of -two ways: +three ways: @@ -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. + + + +Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy (or CD-ROM) and choose the +Fixit menu item. Select either the Fixit floppy or +CD-ROM #2 (the live file system option) as appropriate +and enter the fixit shell. Then execute the following command: + + +Fixit# boot0cfg -B bootdevice + + +substituting bootdevice for your real boot device such +as ad0 (first IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0 +(first SCSI disk), etc. + + + >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message