From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 09:15:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25934 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com [204.215.226.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25916 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hgoldste@localhost) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/MPCS) id MAA23893; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:15:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:15:03 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein Message-Id: <199703261715.MAA23893@bbs.mpcs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bootmanager - easier way to reinstall? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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?