From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 08:29:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA19992 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA19984 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id SAA19940; Thu, 29 May 1997 18:27:47 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:27:47 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: William Bulley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot easy query (FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <199705291309.JAA06113@ohm.merit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 May 1997, William Bulley wrote: > Is there any utility/tool in all of the FreeBSD vastness to allow > the after-the-fact (post-installation) re-installation of the boot > manager (F1 == DOS, F2 == FreeeBSD) "Boot Easy" utility? Yeah, bootinst.exe in the /tools directory of the CD and ftp site. It's a DOS program and it may require you to boot *real* DOS. > > After I installed FreeBSD, I had to re-install Windows 95 and > (thanks to Bill Gates) it overwrote the FreeBSD installation > of the "Boot Easy" thingy. So, I eventually ended up re-installing > FreeBSD -- ugly, so I was hoping there was an easier way. > > BTW, I did check the FAQ and didn't see anything (plus I looked for > files with *boot* in the name in the man pages: sections one and eight, > but no joy...) :-( > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: web@merit.edu > Merit Network Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan > Nadav