From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 20:44:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09362 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.airmail.net (mail.airmail.net [206.66.12.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA09356 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:44:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dvo264@airmail.net) Received: from davidvon from [207.136.25.4] by mail.airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.216) with smtp for id ; Mon, 24 Nov 97 22:44:04 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <039901bcf95c$8c74bee0$2f0b42ce@davidvon> Reply-To: "David Vondrasek" From: "David Vondrasek" To: , "Alastair Rankine" Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.2.5 kills off NT boot manager? Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:42:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----Original Message----- From: Alastair Rankine To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, November 24, 1997 9:52 PM Subject: Upgrading to 2.2.5 kills off NT boot manager? >Hi FreeBSD experts, > >I upgraded my 2.2.2 box last night to 2.2.5 and found that something along >the line hosed my NT boot manager. My partitions are: > >1. FreeBSD >2. Win95/FAT16 >3. WinNT/NTFS > >Now when I boot, it goes straight into FreeBSD, without so much as a >booteasy to let me get into either of the OSs. > >Any ideas? >-- > Alastair Rankine mailto:alastair@progmatics.com.au > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Progmatics - Bespoke Internet Software Phone +61 2 9262 4933 > Level 8, 191 Clarence St Fax +61 2 9262 4045 > Sydney NSW 2000 Australia http://www.progmatics.com.au > Go to the ftp.freebsd.org site and get the bootinst.exe and the boot.bin files from the tools directory. but on a boot floppy and run the bootinst, it will reinstall the boot manager for BSD .