Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:54:23 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com> To: "FreeBSD questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "flygt@sr.se" <flygt@sr.se> Subject: Re: Lost Boot-Manager Message-ID: <199809131654.JAA21108@newsguy.com>
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On Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:25:17 +0200, Gunnar Flygt wrote: >but when I hit F2 i get F? and nothing more happens. So my Bott-Manager >seems to be gone. I tried with the boot floppy to recreate the >Boot-Manager, but nothing happens. > >How do I fix the boot-manager? >From the FAQ 2.9. Windows 95 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back? You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in one of two ways: Running DOS, go into the tools/ directory of your FreeBSD distribution and look for bootinst.exe. You run it like so: bootinst.exe boot.bin and the boot manager will be reinstalled. Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu item. Choose Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the first one) and when you come to the partition editor for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot Manager selection prompt, be sure to select "Boot Manager." This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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