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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.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