From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 14:08:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05920 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixer.visi.com (nordquis@mixer.visi.com [204.73.178.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05905 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:08:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nordquis@localhost) by mixer.visi.com (8.8.0/8.7.5) id QAA09666 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:08:11 -0500 (CDT) From: The Nordquists Posted-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:08:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610162108.QAA09666@mixer.visi.com> Subject: How to Reenable Boot Manager? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:08:11 -0500 (CDT) Reply-to: nordquis@visi.com (Brent J. Nordquist) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently reinstalled the Other Operating System (ahem) that is coresident on my system with FreeBSD 2.2-current. That OS likes to gratuitously remove any boot managers it finds. Now I can only boot FreeBSD if I set its partition Startable by hand, and then I have to reset it again after I'm done. I scoured the documentation and some of the /stand/sysinstall code, but I couldn't find any references to how I replace the FreeBSD boot manager without reinstalling FreeBSD. Can someone help me out? Please copy me on any responses, because I can't read the mailing list, because I can't boot FreeBSD, because... ;-) Thanks in advance! Brent -- The Nordquists nordquis@visi.com +1 612 827-2747