Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:32:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: James Magnuson <magnuson@bcs.rochester.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restoring boot blocks after Win95 install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960124103027.4888F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960123214119.28586B-100000@broca.bcs.rochester.edu>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, James Magnuson wrote: > Hi. I posted a message a couple of days ago. I recently > installed Windows 95 and managed to make FreeBSD inaccessible. if you need to install a boot manager, look in /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/tools/dos for os-bs or booteasy. It's a known gotcha that installing win95 will kill your boot blocks. Can you still boot using a floppy and explicitly specifiying the kernel? ie wd(0,a)/kernel? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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