Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:58:06 -0500 From: "Chuck O'Donnell" <cao@bus.net> To: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to get booteasy reinstalled Message-ID: <19990222105806.B14912@milf18.bus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9902202209500.124617-100000@waimea.cs.unm.edu>; from Colin Eric Johnson on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 10:12:24PM -0700 References: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9902202209500.124617-100000@waimea.cs.unm.edu>
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On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 10:12:24PM -0700, Colin Eric Johnson wrote: > > boy do I feel sheepish > > In a weak moment I purchased the game starship titanic (which only runs > under 95/98) and I had NT installed as the other OS on my laptop. Well, > the 95 install over NT seems to have wiped out booteasy so now I can't > boot to FreeBSD. I am running 3.1-STABLE and I have the 3.1-RELEASE > kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies. > > Can someone walk me through the steps of getting booteasy back onto the > MBR so I can boot FreeBSD to get work done (and 95 to play games). > I saw a message go by a few weeks ago where someone showed how to use sysinstall to replace booteasy, but I've never tried that myself. I usually do the following: 1. From Windows, open a DOS shell, or better yet, boot into MSDOS mode. 2. Create a directory "C:\BOOT" or something like that. 3. Copy "tools\bootinst.exe" and "tools\boot.bin" from the cdrom to your new directory (or ftp from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/tools/) 4. cd into your new "BOOT" directory and run "bootinst" Then just follow the prompts. You might wonder why you can't run `bootinst' directly from the cdrom. `bootinst' wants to be able to write a backup of your current boot record wherever it is running from, which doesn't work on the read-only cdrom. Good luck. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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