From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 23:30:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA10009 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:30:49 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA09988 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:30:45 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA03904; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:24:00 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511270724.HAA03904@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.1 Installation / Boot Manager To: jason@homewood.net Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:23:59 +0000 () Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511270538.XAA22169@koala.scott.net> from "Jason Gilbert" at Nov 26, 95 11:38:49 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1321 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Gilbert stands accused of saying: > I can however boot using the boot.flp and then at the boot: prompt > typing wd(1,a)/kernel. This seems to boot the system and things > work. > > My long question turns out to be; Where is the boot manager? On the second disk 8) Boot DOS as per normal. From your favorite FreeBSD FTP site, in the tools directory for 2.1, grab the 'bootinst' and 'boot.bin' files. Make a full backup of your DOS system (or at least have handy a tool for resurrecting your MBR if things go wrong). Under DOS, booted from your harddisk, run the 'bootinst' program, and let it install the boot.bin file on your first harddisk. This should work OK. > Also, can I run the installation program on boot.flp again without > corrupting the files already on the drive? That depends on what you do with it. The installation program is actually on the harddisk as well, it's /stand/sysinstall. > Jason Gilbert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[