Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:15:03 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bootmanager - easier way to reinstall? Message-ID: <199703261715.MAA23893@bbs.mpcs.com>
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Another os had to go in the first partition of a system that had 2.1.5R in it's third partion. OK, the "other" os was win95 but I had no choice. In the process slick billy's baby overwrote the MBR to ensure that competing os's would have a hard time booting via boot managers. I could only figure out how to bring FreeBSD's boot manager back by going through a custom install from the floppy, mounting the slices but not selecting any packages to install. It worked but the process toasted a few useful /etc files (sysconfig and fstab). Question: Is there a better way to reinstall boot manager?
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